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Primitivist

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CategoryPrimitivist
Alternative termsPrimitivism
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Overview

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."