#art naive

[hokeoutsider]

"Searcher" Hoke...Ebay Outsider-Art Auction...June 18-28... Acrylic Painting on Canvas...20"x 16"x 5/8"... Starting Bid $15...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

HOT, SINGLE, UNSTUDIED SPONGES. 3000 NAUTICAL MILES AWAY. Come sail the distance and read Tiger Tiger!

[elucubrare]

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

[fragglerockenjoyer]

you're standing here beside me, I love the passing of time !

[mcromwell]

"Trust Your Herbs" and a little snippet from What the Arts Teach by Elliot Eisner.

[vyvilha]

115 years since the birth of ukrainian folk artist maria prymachenko

[bear-facets]

and you are art (digital, 2024)

[arbutus-blossoms]

My little gremlins

[rinkaitoons]

Meet the boy who survived🌞🤲

[runtwithwolves]

can you draw butters

YES I CAN!

i head canon butters is the newspaper boy in highschool!

[careyakane]

Rushed thoughts on the importance of creation while in our youth (meant to be read quickly without heed to grammar…)

Music really is a young man’s game—an attempt at a unique perspective to be consumed by the youth. How the hell do I see the world? How do I convince someone, through feeling and words, of my conviction for living? How do I use my singularity to communicate to the masses (or the few)?

How do I take the common and make it intriguing? How do I take the muted and listless and make it wondrous? How do I take suffering and turn it into comfort? How do I alchemize life into art?

How do I say just enough, and never too much, so I might not disrespect what is already great innately in all things beyond the human touch?

Who am I? I am not meant to just be the messenger. That is a part, but not the whole.

I want to be an architect of taste and understanding. I want to make people understand themselves. I want to make them feel the same awe and wonder that I do in small, simple things, just as one does for the grand and rare. I want to reverse the plague of numb stumbling, drowned-out consumption, and blindness to a beautiful world that has not failed them.

As much as I like to claim there is no rush, it is a lie. The rush should never force one to do sloppy work, but time is everything, since perspective is everything.

Only once will I have this clarity and naïveté toward life—this sense of worth and great fear battling each other day in and day out. Only now do the days stretch with such opportunity and golden light, and the nights with such longing and melancholy.

Speak. Write. Dance. Create. It is all you must do. But do it well and honestly. For honest and quick work will be your best hope. The gods of creation look upon you with kind eyes and won’t fail you now.

You must only give in to the work. Give in to the life. Give in to the range of elation and loss.

Write, my boy. Write.

[hokeoutsider]

"Crossing The Stream" T-Marie Noaln...Ebay Outsider-Art Auction...June 17-27...Acrylic Painting on Wood...15 1/4"x 9 3/4"x 3/8"... Starting Bid $16...

[clownowo]

i think we don't consider enough options in regards to Klavier's hair

[oncanvas]

To Grandma's House We Go on Thanksgiving Day, Grandma Moses, 1 September 1942

Oil and glitter on Masonite 16 x 22 ½ in. (40.6 x 57.2 cm)

[mcromwell]

Talking about wax pastels and drawing this guy in the Trash Book 2024

[louthelost]

Lothal is my home

Ezra Bridger, the character that you are...

(progress shots under the cut)