Made from papier-mâché, its title is “Battleship Kate,” and it’s a major piece of American folk art. But it’s not the sculpture that makes it important. It’s the tattoos. The sculpture ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Elie Nadelman was an American-Polish artist whose work married the genres of classical sculpture and folk art. His sculptures of women and animals combined soft stylization with the industrial ...

This resulted in the wooden sculptures being appreciated in Paris ... animals or saints prove that the relationship between the avant-garde and folk art did not have to be one-sided and cannibalistic.

Time and geography collapse in Haegue Yang's abstracted visual language merging the modern and the pre-modern.

Finster was a Baptist minister and used visions that he believed were divine inspirations from God to create Paradise Garden, a folk art sculpture garden dedicated to his life and work which included ...

For more info, see the Disclosure Policy. Alebrijes are brightly-colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantasy creatures, ...