Neo-primitivism was a Russian art movement

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years...

 which took its name from the book Neo-primitivizm (1913), by Aleksandr Shevchenko

Aleksandr Shevchenko

Aleksandr Shevchenko was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name....

. In the book Shevchenko proposes a new style of modern painting which fuses elements of Cézanne, Cubism

Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...

 and Futurism

Futurism (art)

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...

 with traditional Russian 'folk art

Folk art

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' conventions and motifs, notably the russian icon and the lubok

Lubok

A lubok is a Russian popular print, characterized by simple graphics and narratives derived from literature, religious stories and popular tales. Lubki prints were used as decoration in houses and inns...

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Neo-primitivism in the West is also used as a wider term to describe the work of artists/philosophers who aspire to the ideology or aesthetic of primitivism

Primitivism

Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics...

. As a modern art form, neo-primitivism is a radical and influential movement within the realm of body modification

Body modification

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. As a political/social movement, neo-primitivism is commonly associated with the author/philosopher John Zerzan

John Zerzan

John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like...

, and is closely linked, often interchangeably, with the Neo-tribalism

Neo-Tribalism

Neotribalism or modern tribalism is the ideology that human beings have evolved to live in tribal society, as opposed to mass society, and thus will naturally form social networks constituting new "tribes."-Sociological theory:...

 movement.

Neo-primitive artists

Russian artists associated with Neo-primitivism include:

• David Burlyuk
• Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall
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• Pavel Filonov
  Pavel Filonov
  Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet.-Biography:Filonov was born in Moscow on January 8, 1883 or December 27, 1882 . In 1897, he moved to St. Petersburg where he took art lessons...
  
  
• Natalia Goncharova
  Natalia Goncharova
  Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist , painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Mikhail Larionov
  Mikhail Larionov
  Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Kasimir Malevich
• Aleksandr Shevchenko
  Aleksandr Shevchenko
  Aleksandr Shevchenko was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name....
  
  
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....