• There are many kinds of experimental and intuitive art, spontaneously created but still fascinating and undervalued.

    Naïve Art- is another free art form.

    In any case, this art doesn’t have to make sense later, it is just a part of you, existing in the moment. Observers will take what they will from it.

    The final statement should be that in the realm of art the most important characteristic is courage. Courage to pursue what some voice inside of you, against the tidal wave of everything that’s happening in the society, says go this way. Courage to pursue what you know you really have to pursue. That’s what counts.
    – Richard Foreman, filmmaker

    Courage counts. Courage gives life to art; courage inspires those who open themselves up to it.

    Some paintings, some works of art, give other artists courage.

    Journal question: If your work lacks courage, could it be because you don’t believe in it deeply enough, don’t feel it is worth taking risks for? – Heron Dance

    Or perhaps the supportive community has yet to be found?

    It is hard to write about Experimental Art because there is so much already written but I want to write in my own original voice. My own experiments started because I didn’t have formal training in art or mentors who knew a lot about it. I just started painting and learned about the labels later.

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This is how it all started…

Asking whether this type of art is a skill, and is it art?

When I painted a female figure which I thought was pretty good, one in oils, I brought it to a special art club critique night, where the reviewer called it

‘Naive Art’ and she thought it was out of proportion. I finally decided to adopt it as my ‘signature’

style and put a copy on my ‘business’ card. While I think my style is more one of Folk Art, Expressionism or Intuitive art, I researched all the variations to see what I liked best.

The main characteristics of naive art are the following:

It presents defined contours, full of precision.

The designs do not have an adequate finish and the strokes do not have great perspective.

It has deficiencies in the application of colors, textures and shadows.

It represents an ingenuous vision of the world with bright and cheerful colors.

It has simplification of decorative elements.

P. Fern Phillips

Writer & Painter and Digital Artist