Since he did not have a formal education he is usually classified as a primitivist.

But Basquiat was not a true primitivist.

Yet it's all primitivist, not primitive.

Barzun states that, contrary to myth, Rousseau was no primitivist; for him:

He considered himself a Christian Primitivist, trying to live in the 20th century with the ideals of the 1st century Christians.

Van Vliet has been described as a modernist, a primitivist, an abstract expressionist, and an outsider artist.

As a primitivist among missiologists, he pre-dated the more celebrated Roland Allen by eighty years.

His untraditional approach and home-made sensibility made him a primitivist to many; it also made him an icon outside the jazz community.

Highlights include rare examples of his early primitivist and surrealist styles, which trace the influence of pre-Columbian art on his work.

Thirty years ago, after a visit here, a reporter played some recordings of repentistas for the American primitivist guitarist John Fahey.

Jensen's work is sometimes characterized as anarcho-primitivist, although he has categorically rejected that label, describing primitivist as a "racist way to describe indigenous peoples."

Similarly, critics in academia often portray Lindsay as a well-meaning but misguided primitivist in his representations of Africans and African Americans.

Individual spaces are devoted to modern "genre" sculpture (works with social themes), "archaistic" sculpture, Cubistic, "primitivist" and ethnographic sculpture.

Combining the fastidious care of a medieval manuscript illuminator and the raw immediacy of a modern primitivist, Klee seems to reinvent pictorial art with each piece.

Hobbes, a "hard Primitivist", flatly asserted that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"-a "war of all against all".

Clifford Odets was another sophisticated primitivist, a famous playwright who drew and painted on paper from the mid-40's to the mid-50's as private relief from insomnia and writer's block.

THE traditional rap against Kerouac - that he was a sort of half-baked dopehead primitivist who prized sensation over sense - crumbles on a reading of his journals.

He also cultivated a post-modernist painting style with conventional themes, but in 1949 his work began to take on a personal primitivist as a reinvention of Romanesque Catalan painting.

The arrangement arose after the four mothers, who sympathized with the primitivist Move members, were taken to court by the Board of Education because they refused to send their children to school.

Among the paintings are echoes of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the French primitivist Henri Rousseau and living muralists like Kent Twitchell.

Ricco's early work (e.g. his paintings of castle life) can be classified as primitivist, while his mature work includes still lifes, harbor scenes, exotic motifs and allegorical figures.

Without such a system, his subconscious mind would begin to act much like a dawn-age man's or a primitivist's, with self-sustaining mental actions neither checked, nor overruled, nor brought to light for inspection.

He also took an interest in the illustrations contributed to Voronca and Pană by, respectively, Constantin Brâncuşi and Victor Brauner, expressing admiration for their "primitivist" aesthetics.

Bookchin sets his social anarchism in opposition to individualist, primitivist and post-modern forms of anarchism (represented, he maintains, by such anarchist philosophers as John Zerzan and Hakim Bey).

And not all underwent the transformation by passing through the Primitivist phase.

The novella Light is set in the e-commerce boom of the late 1990s and features the author's own Primitivist drawings.

It is frequently political, usually espousing a radical, environmental, Primitivist and/or Marxist stance in most of the issues discussed.

He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.

In post-modern thinking, there has been renewed interest and appreciation for Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert on the Theatre, with the acceptance since Rousseau's time of Utopian and Primitivist elements in political thought.

Though never a Primitivist himself, he attempted to give a fair explanation of Primitivist ideas (pages 127-152), and the fact of the existence of this section led some to conclude that Booth was a Primitivist.