Primitivisum
 

Reaching for the exotic primitives to revitalize the anemic tradition.

Gauguin:  The Moon and the Earth, 1893
Gauguin:  Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892
Pablo Picasso:  Science and Charity, 1897
 Women of Avignon, 1907
 Striated Face ; Head with scarification; Mother and Child (1907)
 Nude with Raised Arms(1907)
African Sculptures:
 Mask from Bena-Lulua tribe.
 Mask from Bahangi tribe (French Congo)
 Hermaphrodite figure from Bambara tribe.

Primitives at home:  The untrained, the folk

Anonymous American painter:  Meditation by the Sea (1850-60)
John Kensett: Coast Scene with figures. 1869.
Edward Hicks:  The Peacable Kingdom
Rosa Bonheur
Grandma Moses:  The Quilting Bee. 1950
Pierre-Auguste Renoir:  Luncheon of the Boating Party. 1881
Wassily Kandinsky:  The Night, 1907
Wassily Kandinsky:  St. George II, 1911

Modern Primitives: thorough integration into modernist visual vocabulary

Henri Rousseau:  War
Henri Rousseau:  The Dream, 1910
Linda Okazaki:  Coffee, Crackers and Criticism. 1977
Henri Rousseau: Self-Portrait
Florine Stettheimer:  Portrait of Myself. 1923
Jacob Lawrence:  From The Great Migration series. 1940
Jacob Lawrence:  The Mulattoes, 1938