I think I saw someone on here post about the Heavyweight crew a while back, maybe that was somewhere else though. I could post more but you should just check out www.hvw8.com
I think he is really underappreciated as a painter, and I hate when he and other black painters like him are classified as naive or primitive. He was a great painter and his paintings like the jungle and the ones above express a lot of emotion. Naive and primitive are legit art terms. A) any artist who does not have formal training. B) A style that lacks perspective.
Grandma Moses and many other White artist are called naive or primitive.
Does not mean the artists paintings are not great or lack emotion.
If you knew that and still hate the classification, that's cool. No, I get it and I just don't like it. I hear that. Never really thought about it before. I dislike when people suggest that somebody like Robert Johnson Or BB King is a great guitarist because they picked cotton. Like Eric Clapton worked hard at his music, but RJ and BB just picked some cotton then they could play. Or worse yet their talent comes from selling their soul to the devil.
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Naive and primitive are legit art terms. A) any artist who does not have formal training. B) A style that lacks perspective.
Grandma Moses and many other White artist are called naive or primitive.
Does not mean the artists paintings are not great or lack emotion.
If you knew that and still hate the classification, that's cool.
No, I get it and I just don't like it.
I hear that. Never really thought about it before. I dislike when people suggest that somebody like Robert Johnson Or BB King is a great guitarist because they picked cotton. Like Eric Clapton worked hard at his music, but RJ and BB just picked some cotton then they could play. Or worse yet their talent comes from selling their soul to the devil.