The folk art tradition One other aspect of contemporary Polish art that has to be mentioned, even though its scale and importance have diminished in recent years, is the presence in it of elements of ...

"There I learned what art is all about," he said of his education at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima. Born in 1927 in Lobitos, Piura, Peru, Delfin currently resides in Lima, Peru. He was ...

Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected ...

Indie folk artists found inspiration in traditional folk tunes, yet infused them with contemporary themes. This era was marked by a return to storytelling, where musicians shared personal tales ...

What came before him informed his writing—traditional folk songs, blues, and country music. You don’t end up with Bob Dylan without Woody Guthrie or Little Richard. The artists below stand on ...

Heri Dono is a contemporary Indonesian artist known for his inventive mélange of traditional folk art with contemporary imagery. Throughout his practice, he combines diverse source material such as ...

His music pulls from contemporary folk artists like Josh Ritter and Gregory Alan Isakov, but also ventures into sounds reminiscent of The War on Drugs and Tame Impala. Dane Page continues to tour ...