Tag: Folk art
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Defoy At Heart Of Official Quebec Antique Dealer Route
By the winter of 1982, we had been going to the Harbourfront Antique market every Sunday for about a year, and were making a pretty good living selling things we had bought at local auctions and garage sales. Then one day, I read in the excellent and entertaining “bible” of Antique dealing “The Furniture Doctor”…
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Defining Folk Art
What is folk art? Any precise definition of art is by nature a slippery process and open to question. “Folk art” is a term applied to diverse objects, like a highly organized Mennonite fracture drawing which expresses a collective, ethically based decorative tradition. Yet it is also applied to the more individualistic outpourings of any…
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Folk Art In Cyberspace
It is interesting to consider how the development of the World Wide Web has affected the work of the untrained artist. Like all artists, folk artists reflect the world they see around them, and have always been affected by the media. An example is in the work of Ewald Rentz who liked watching Sesame Street…
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Finding Value In The Folk Art Of Maud Lewis
Occasionally I will have a Maud Lewis painting displayed for sale in my shop, and it is sometimes interesting to get people’s reactions to a $6,000 painting that at first glance looks like their 12 year old niece painted it. “My goodness will you look at that,” and some covered up snickering, pretty well expresses…