Neo-primitivism was a Russian art movement which took its name from the book Neo-primitivizm (1913), by Aleksandr Shevchenko. In the book Shevchenko proposes a new style of modern painting which fuses elements of Cézanne, Cubism and Futurism with traditional Russian 'folk art' conventions and motifs, notably the russian icon and the lubok. Neo-primitivism in the West is also used as a wider term to describe the work of artists who aspire to the aesthetic of primitivism.
Neo-primitive artists
Russian artists associated with Neo-primitivism include:
