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Thread #138058   Message #3158799
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
22-May-11 - 03:19 PM
Thread Name: British Folk Art
Subject: RE: British Folk Art
I'm sure Wallis would turn in his grave if you called his work Folk Art, glueman. Just seems kind of wrong somehow, like calling Ivor Cutler Folk Music. But then again, when you consider the amount of art being done by British Outsiders, then one night ponder the nature of Folk (What is Folk Art anyone? What's that? Never seen a horse make a picture?). Otherwise, anything in the traditional & generally anonymous vernacular - from medieval misericords to modern hip-hop grafitti tags would suffice, none of which might be the sort of thing lively is looking for (as we've seen again & again on Mudcat, Folk is very often a matter of what isn't rather than what is - & I'm still frankly mystified as to what is meant by the term Folk Arts).

Joseph Crawhall II wasn't Folk either, though his quaint woodcuts & decorative motifs certainly have an abiding Folk feel & will be familiar to many Folkies - see Here for a fine selection of his amazing work.