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What is Primitivism
- Arose in Western Europe 18th Century
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Colonial provide westernisation with many cultures set upon unequal powers
Primitive: Savage, Dominate Colonial subject
- Justified its apparatus of power because colonial subject seems to require
civilisation, doesn’t have a culture to justify its own, need civilisation imposed on
them forcefully
Domesticated / Undomesticated
- Anonymous artists
Tahiti
- Corruption of these Culture
- Social availability (sexual as well) of women, finding models easily
Undressed (fantasy that didn’t match up the reality that Gauguin saw was false)
Projection of primitive imagination/ fantasies
- Rejection of European values
- Alternative to degenerate western civilisation
- Constant desire to produce work that was un-tainted by the world (not corrupted)
Showcasing to audiences
Non-Western Artefacts
Emile Nolde, 1912
- Sacred / daily uses (imbed in a culture that uses them)
Primitive people do not have moralistic systems (nudity)
Maurice Vlaminck, André Derain, 1906 – Increase trade with African countries
Visual innovation with spiritual rebellion
From Anti-Colonialism to Post- Colonialism