the visual arts, music, drama, dance, or literature originating from, or traditional to, the ordinary people of a country
folk art in American English
noun
artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning
Derived forms
folk-art
adjective
folk artist
Word origin
[1920–25]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Unknown Soldier, ski jump, slalom, superpower, zipper
Examples of 'folk art' in a sentence
folk art
He also drew on microbiology and memory traces, psychological matter and folk art.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
Southern folk art is displayed on striped wallpaper.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Thus, folk art grabs whatever is at hand and transforms it.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Iadmire the folk art of official school photos.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
My parents have always loved naive and folk art.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
It was an art form everyone took part in, like folk art.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Whatever else you call it, this is folk art.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Folk art is leading artists off the edge of the establishment map.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The colours of the alebrijes — folk-art sculptures of fantastical creatures — are gorgeous.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But folk art, on the whole, stood for a democracy of aspiration.