Naive art is a term applied to painting (and to a much lesser degree sculpture) produced in more or less sophisticated modern societies but lacking conventional representational skills. Colours are characteristically bright and non-naturalistic, perspective non-scientific, and the vision childlike or literal-minded. Interest in the freshness and directness of vision of outstanding naive artists such as Henri Rousseau developed in France in the early years of the 20th century, and since then many other
naive artists, for example Grandma Moses in the USA, have won critical recognition. Research Naive Art
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