Western art which is passed through various phases such as Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque each standing in a relationship to the other, primitive art has no historical frame of reference. In "Art History" by Marilyn Stokastd, in the article "the Myth of "Primitive" Art;" she discusses the differences between the old notion of people and their being "primitive" and there for unsophisticated. The definition of "primitive" is a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization, and the definition of "primitive art" is a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists, according to the Webster Dictionary. My definition of "Primitive Art" is that of artists that did not know at the time they were an natural born artists, who was unaware of being an artist. They were people "artist" from an earlier civilization, that produced beautiful works of art, to show …show more content…
The Crave Effiggy: Male Figure from the western Bahe-a;-Ghazal Providence from the late 19th early 20th century. The Suspension Hook, Papua, New Guinea, its made of spike river wood with pigments, and a human skull covered in clay with shells inlayed. The true Negro, dark skinned and with woolly hair is restricted roughly to the guinea coast and its hinterland from the Senegal River to the mouth of the Cross River in the south at British