Folk art, or peasant art is also referred to as "outsider," "self-taught," "primitive" and "Naïve" art.
Most of the original artwork in the Scissorcraft.com network of websites can proudly be referred to as folkart since the artist/website designer is completely self-taught.
Peasants are people who are generally described as small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers in agriculture, or rustic country dwelling folk.
Peasant art is traditional folk art that people have passed along from one generation to another. As a result, examples of self-taught artistry exist everywhere people have lived. Stone Age pottery has been found decorated with spirals, zigzags, dots, and animals, designs that continue to be common motives in modern folk art.
Historically, peasants have applied artistic decorations to china and pottery as well as glass etching, embroidery, enamelling, woodwork and needlepoint for clothing and tapestry. Puppetry is one of the oldest forms of folk art. Puppets such as marionettes, glove puppets, rod puppets, cloth puppets and wire puppets have been used to tell children's stories and fables and in folk songs and dances.
Materials used to create folk art includes linen, colored cloth and inlaid felt cut outs, linoleum and wood carvings, silk embroidery, paper cuts, jewelry, leatherwork and other arts and crafts.
Folk Art, or peasant art is usually brightly colored geometric designs | religious symbols and scenes depicting rural life.
Folk art also is used extensively to decorate easter eggs in many countries.
Common folk art motifs are stylized depictions of birds | animals | plants | flowers | people | religious figures | buildings, activities in every-day life, all arranged more or less in geometric patterns.
People are usually depicted as simple concepts of the human form and not usually drawn accurately.
