This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naive art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naive art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naive art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naive art" was Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naive art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naive art. Naive art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naive art now exist in Kecskemet, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naive art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naivism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naive art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedusic, Edo Kovacevic, Omer Mujadzic, Kamilo Ruzicka, Ivan Tabakovic, and Oton Postruznik, the sculptors Antun Augustincic, Frano Krsinic, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naif, naive art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gazi, Ivan Generalic, Josip Generalic, Krsto Hegedusic, Mijo Kovacic, Ivan Lackovic-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Vecenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883-1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836-1924) Henry Darger (1892-1973) L. S. Lowry (1887-1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860-1961) Nikifor (1895-1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) Scottie Wilson (1890-1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913-2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916-2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921-2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusee in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in Sao Paulo Musee international d'art naif de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naive Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naive Art in Zagreb Croatian Naive Art Museum in Hlebine Musee international d'Art naif Anatole Jakovsky in Nice Musee d'Art Naif - Max Fourny in Paris International Museum of Naive Art in Vicq (near Versailles) Museum of Naive Art in Beraut (near Toulouse) Museum Charlotte Zander in Bonnigheim Gesellschaft fur Naive Kunst in Hannover Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists in Kecskemet Gallery of International Naive Art (GINA) in Tel Aviv Naive Art Museum in Moscow Collection of naive and outsider art of Dr. X. Boguemskaia and A.Turchin Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD


Condition:
Alterations: Original Condition Unaltered
Imperfections: Some Imperfections
Condition Notes: Good
good. minor wear. These were done on scraps of cardboard. some of the wear might be intentional. please see photos.

Materials & Techniques:
Gouache

Details:
Country of Origin: Unknown
What type of item is it? Vintage / Antique / Used
Art Subjects: Portrait
Frame Type: Unframed

Original Condition Unaltered; Some Imperfections; Good
good. minor wear. These were done on scraps of cardboard. some of the wear might be intentional. please see photos.