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Description: Primitive Americana Folk Art has its roots from the beginnings of America. The first settlers looked to their heritages and made ornamental Primitive Americana Folk Art that reflected a new beginning in a new land. Primitive Americana Folk Art arose through the melting pot of old world differences to emerge as an American art form from the love of country. Primitive Americana Folk Art began as a homesick remedy and evolved into an American Couture.

Primitive Americana Folk Art used a great deal of wood to make the majority of commonly used objects. Most everything was made of wood, and it was the decorating of these many objects that made Primitive Americana Folk Art such a significant part of beautifying their homes. Due from necessity new Americans relied on their saws, ax’s, and knifes to hand cut wood into furniture and decorative elements. Sometimes very ruff in nature and mostly made of pine wood. Settlers wood paint their wooden creations to spruce them up and disguise their true nature. Settlers would employ many means to hide the crude nature of their handmade surroundings to look more like the luxuries from the Old World, resulting in Primitive Americana Folk Art.

New Americans would white wash the walls with plaster and use vegetable dyes to color the walls. They would often paint surfaces to look like marble and expensive hard woods. Often they would paint murals on their walls by using stencils which originated from their knowledge of manuscript illumination.

Many of the Primitive Americana Folk Art stencil designs were mostly religious symbolism. These symbols included:

Heart: Representing Christian charity.
Three pedal Tulip: The Trinity.
Dove: Peace and Baptism.
Willow Tree: Tree of Life.

Primitive Americana Folk Art designs have always been simplistic in nature. Functionality has always been Primitive Americana Folk Arts main characteristic. Primitive Americana Folk Artists range from the craftsmen to the farmer, whose designs are based on need, skill, taste, and regional trends.

Much of Primitive Americana Folk Art originates from women in the home who combined their domestic responsibilities and creative desires, to create a Primitive Americana Folk Art form that beautified their surroundings, and created an outlet for their artistic abilities.

Because paint was not readily available, women turned to quilting, embroidery, cross-stitching and rug making as their medium of choice. Primitive Americana Folk Artists were typically untrained in the arts and were not seeking recognition as an artist or looking for patrons.

Primitive Americana Folk Art has been described as a nationalistic genius of the people. Primitive Americana Folk Art first appeared in the writings of Robert Redfield, who compared folk society to the beginnings of a civilization. In folk society ideas, goals, beliefs and knowledge are shared and accepted as the same. Folk societies are isolated and work towards the same goals, in the processes their art resembles each other and a culture is born. Primitive Americana Folk Art is the survival of a tradition of art making originating from the societies founders.

Primitive Americana Folk Art is an expression of the common people, Primitive Americana Folk Art is art made by the self-taught. Much of Primitive Americana Folk Art originated from household items used in daily living.