Naive art is one of the directions of primitivism of the 18th-21st centuries, including both amateur art (painting, graphics, decorative art, sculpture, architecture) and the fine arts of self-taught artists. Naive art has made a significant contribution to the artistic culture of many countries. In Russia, especially in recent decades, it has received aesthetic recognition. The most prominent representative at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as in the first decade of Soviet power, was Yefim Chestnyakov. In the Kostroma Museum-Reserve there are his canvases “City of General Welfare” and “Festive procession with a song. Kolyada. It seems to me that naive art is a new level in art. Thanks to him, people stopped being sure that art is something difficult, heavy. Because sometimes the simplest things are the best.
Article author: Daria Tarasova.