Research and Reference- 1st Assignment

Naive Art

Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma Mosses" (1860-1961)

Taken from http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Moses-Grandma.html

Anna Maru Robertson born in Greenwich, New York and was one of the best known artist in America who did not have any formal art education. She was the third of ten children born to a farmer Russell King Robertson. When Grandma Mosses was young she loves to draw happy colorful scenes.

Naive art is almost similar to Folk art but they are different in the way where naive art is less concerned with social structures, political correctness and traditions. Naive art is now known as one of the important style due to the changing styles around yet remains almost the same.

It is characterized as a refreshing innocence and the used of bright colors, child-like perspective and idiosyncratic scale which then portrays an understanding idealized scenes of our daily life.

Elements of design :

• Lines marks were made with brush and value of lines are solid.
• Shapes are easily defined and understandable.
• Directions of the paintings are mainly vertical gives a feeling of balance, formality and alertness.
• Size of far away drawings are smaller and nearer drawings are bigger.
• Texture is soft hard glossy (mostly oil painting).
• Colors used are mostly bright colorful colors.
• Tone has a mixture of darkness and brightness.

Principles of design :

• Is balance.
• Gradation is static, it starts from light to dark.
• Not much repetition is used.
• Contrast in direction horizontally.
• Harmony in paintings is used, there are similar lines and sizes of objects next to each other.
• Dominance of size to attract interest.
• The unity of the drawings is to make it look cheerful.