Re: Questions for John Stokes?
Posted: 26 Feb 2011, 00:41
Discovered my art is known as Naive Art
http://www.ginagallery.com/asp/WhatIsNaiveArt.asp
which is childlike, flat backgrounds, colourful, humourous, unusual scale..self taught..
As said before reading comics does show a lot that I never grew up in some ways..which is a good thing..I never lost that side of me..also being a cartoonist must also come out in my work..
http://www.ginagallery.com/asp/WhatIsNaiveArt.asp
which is childlike, flat backgrounds, colourful, humourous, unusual scale..self taught..
http://www.ginagallery.com/asp/WhatIsNaiveArt.aspNaïve art is characterized by a refreshing innocence and the charming use of bright colors, child-like perspective and idiosyncratic scale. It portrays simple, easily-understandable and often idealized scenes of everyday life. The naïve artist - often self-taught - treats us to a uniquely literal, yet extremely personal and coherent, vision of what the world was, is or should be. It offers us, often in painstaking detail, a timeless and optimistic depiction of an ancient story or Biblical tale, an ordinary occurrence or current event, a special ceremony or daily activity. The naïve painting bustles with color and excitement, brims with wry humour and candor, bubbles with unbridled empathy and love
As said before reading comics does show a lot that I never grew up in some ways..which is a good thing..I never lost that side of me..also being a cartoonist must also come out in my work..