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The War of Independence, Traian Ciucurescu, 1877
Oil on glass, 30 x 25 cm. Private collection
How Old is Naïve art?
There are two possible ways of defining when Naïve art originated. One is to assume that it happened when Naïve art was first accepted as an artistic mode of status equal to every other artistic mode. That would date its birth to the early years of the twentieth century.
The other is to apprehend Naïve art as no more or less than that, and to look back into human prehistory and to a time when all art was of a type that might now be considered Naïve – tens of thousands of years ago, when the first rock drawings were etched and when the first cave-pictures of bears and other animals were scratched out.
If we accept this second definition, we are inevitably confronted with the very intriguing question, ‘So who was that first Naïve artist?’ Many thousands of years ago, then, in the dawn of human awareness, there lived a hunter. One day it came to him to scratch on a smooth rock surface the contours of a deer or a goat in the act of running away.
A single, economical line was enough to render the exquisite form of the graceful creature and the agile swiftness of its flight. The hunter’s experience was not that of an artist, simply that of a hunter who had observed his ‘model’ all his life. It is impossible at this distance in time to know why he made his drawing. Perhaps it was an attempt to say something important to his family group; perhaps it was meant as a divine symbol, a charm intended to bring success in the hunt. From the point of view of an art historian, such an artistic form of expression testifies to an awakening of individual creative energy and a need, after its accumulation through the process of encounters with nature, to find an outlet for it.
This first-ever artist really did exist. He must have existed. And he must therefore have been truly ‘naïve’ in what he depicted because he was living at a time when no system of pictorial representation had been invented. Only thereafter did such a system gradually begin to take shape and develop. And only when such a system is in place can there be anything like a ‘professional’ artist.
It is very unlikely, for example, that the paintings on the walls of the Altamira or Lascaux caves were creations of unskilled artists. The precision in depiction of the characteristic features of bison, especially their massive agility, the use of chiaroscuro, the overall beauty of the paintings with their subtleties of colorations – all these surely reveal the brilliant craftsmanship of the professional artist.
The War of Independence, Emil Pavelescu, 1877
Oil on canvas, 55 x 80 cm. Private collection
Weaver Seen from Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884
Oil on canvas, 70 x 85 cm. Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam
The Schuffenecker Family, Paul Gauguin, 1889
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris