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    Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
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    Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most...
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    folk art is a regional form of folk art based in the Appalachian region in the United States. In an article about the contemporary form of this art,...
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    Chinese folk art or Chinese handcrafts are artistic forms inherited from a regional or ethnic scene in China. Usually there are some variation between...
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    The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street...
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    Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and intended for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes...
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    African folk art consists of a variety of items: household objects, metal objects, toys, textiles, masks, and wood sculpture. Most traditional African art meets...
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  • Folk art in the United States developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the Revolutionary War when settlers revived artistic traditions...
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    heritage. Tangible folk art includes historic objects which are crafted and used within a traditional community. Intangible folk arts include forms such...
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  • The folk and tribal arts of India speak volumes about the country's rich heritage. Art forms in India have been exquisite and explicit. Folk art forms...
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    Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
    in art schools; or they have been repurposed as folk art, characterized as objects whose decorative form supersedes their utilitarian needs. Folk art is...
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    Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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    Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 Australian aboriginal art Folk art John Young Museum of Art, Honolulu...
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    Mexican mask-folk art refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico. Evidence of mask making in the region...
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    Hungary (redirect from Hungarian folk art)
    from folk music), had instinctively or consciously striven to develop widely and universally the musical world of the folk song. Folk poetry and folk music...
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  • Collection of Tianyouge [zh] (天游阁集). Octagonal drum is a type of Manchu folk art that was very popular among bannermen, especially in Beijing.: 147  It...
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    Swiss cheese, watches, cowbells, banking, and the Swiss Army knives. Folk art is kept alive in organizations all over the country. In Switzerland, it...
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    Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Villagers of Ioannina City is a folk rock band from Ioannina, formed in 2007. Ioannina is twinned with: Požarevac...
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    The Museum of International Folk Art is a state-run institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is one of many cultural institutions operated...
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  • painting, non-folk sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation art, mixed-media works, illustration, graphic arts, performance art, and imaging Literature...
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    Vaillancourt Folk Art (VFA) is a brand and fine art studio recognized for its manufacturing and wholesaling of Christmas collectibes and operations of...
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  • folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...
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    result is sometimes called primitivism, pseudo-naïve art, or faux naïve art. Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily derive from a distinct popular...
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    Shamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and more recently Christianity. Many folk traditions developed in rural areas such as villages. They often relate to...
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    rural crafts. Like folk art, handicraft output often has cultural, political, and/or religious significance. Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous...
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    Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2012-10-04. Thai Folk Art "Thai Comic". Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2012-10-04...
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  • heritage. Tangible folk art includes objects which historically are crafted and used within a traditional community. Intangible folk arts include such...
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  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (category American folk art)
    The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center was opened in 1957 in Colonial Williamsburg to house her collection of folk art. A number prominent figures...
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    considered for merging. › Puli kali (Meaning: Tiger Dance) is a recreational folk art from the state of Kerala, India. It is performed by trained artists to...
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  • Pala is a cultural folk ballad form of Odisha, derived from Sanskrit and Odia literature. It is performed by a group of five or six people, consisting...
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