Associations to the word «Primitivism»

Wiktionary

PRIMITIVISM, noun. The state or quality of being primitive
PRIMITIVISM, noun. The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization
PRIMITIVISM, noun. Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms

Dictionary definition

PRIMITIVISM, noun. A wild or unrefined state.
PRIMITIVISM, noun. A genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin