naive paintings

[mercury]

can anyone tell me a bit about naive paintings/painters?? doing a project and cant really find a good website

[woofgang]

try here http://www.midan.org/en/naiveart.htm

[Frogface]

The Expressionists very very influenced by the naive - read up on the painter Emil Nolde, the expressionist movements Die Brucke/Der Blau Reiter, the importance in Paris of the first non-western art exhibion and for philosophical background read up on Nietzche, Rousseau and his "noble savage" theory.

[mercury]

Thanks doods thats a big help!!