The Importance of Folk and Tribal Art in Our Society

Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1

Abstract

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other common people. It is often learned through serious apprenticeships or passed down among family members from generation to generation. It is important that the patterns, motifs, techniques and materials of folk art have special significance and can reveal a great deal about a culture or society to which it is belonged. It remains simple and decorative is its appeal because the constriction and everything involved in folk art reveals much about the essential values or characteristics of a society. folk art is often studied by historians and anthropologists as an artistic window into what an ancient culture was like a tool to know about the past. In India it is found is the form of pottery, painting, music, dance, masks, Embroidery, Pottery etc. created, through some common but specific designs, patterns which classify them.

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Anju Choudhary

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Anju Choudhary (2017). The Importance of Folk and Tribal Art in Our Society. Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences, 0(1), 265-269. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-511112