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Primitivist

Scope note

Russian art movement, active from about 1905 to 1920, which combined influences from Russian folk art with ideas borrowed from Cubism and Futurism.(THDAT) For the deliberately unsophisticated and unschooled approach to artistic creation, use "primitivism."

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000174254

Equivalent Terms used

primitivism

Created

13yrs ago

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