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NAIF (ny-EEF)
A naïve or
inexperienced person
Common
clues: Innocent
one; Babe in the woods; Ingenuous sort; Artless one; Greenhorn;
Inexperienced person; Wide-eyed one
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Naïve
art is characterized by a childlike simplicity. (See also
outsider art, to which it bears many similarities.) It is a gross
oversimplification to assume that Naïve art is created by
people with little or no formal art training.
Example
of Radi Nedelchev's work
The
term naïve art presumes the existence (by contrast) of an
academy and of a generally accepted educated manner of art
creation, most often painting. In practice, however, there are
schools of naïve artists. Over time it has become an
acceptable style.
The
characteristics of naïve art are an awkward relationship to
the formal qualities of painting. Difficulties with drawing and
perspective that result in a charmingly awkward and often
refreshing vision, strong use of pattern, unrefined colour, and
simplicity rather than subtlety are all supposed markers of naïve
art. It has, however, become such a popular and recognisable
style that many examples could be called pseudo-naïve.
Whereas
naïve art ideally describes the work of an artist who did
not receive a formal education in an art school or academy, for
example Henri Rousseau or Alfred Wallis, 'pseudo naïve' or
'faux naïve' art describes the work of an artist working in
a more imitative or self-conscious mode and whose work can be
seen as more imitative than original.
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article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Naive art".
NAIF
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We+ >1 09 Babe in the woods FAWN LAMB
9
We >1 08 Innocent BABE LAMB PURE
7
Tu >1 09 Innocent one BABE LAMB
3
Fr- >1 07 Ingenuous sort
2
Tu >1 02 Artless one
06
Childlike person
2
Th- >1 00 Greenhorn COLT TIRO TYRO
2
Th- >1 99 Inexperienced one TYRO
2
Th- >1 99 Inexperienced person
2
Th- LAT 08 Ingenuous one
2
>1 07 Unworldly person
2
Tu- >1 06 Wide-eyed one
1
Th NYT 74 Artless
1
Tu LAT 02 Dewy-eyed one
1
Fr CSy 02 Gullible person
95
Having a true luster, as gemstones
1
We NYT 95 Lacking savoir-faire
1
We NYS 05 Newbie TYRO
1
Mo LAT 04 One wet behind the ears
1
We Tau 08 One with no idea
1
We CSy 97 Simple-minded person
01
Unsophisticated Frenchman
1
Fr LAT 97 Unsophisticated person
1
Th WSJ 07 Unsophisticated sort RUBE
1
Sa NYT 01 Unversed sort
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