Pre-production - Folk Art and Minnie Evans

Untitled (Faces at Median) - Minnie Evans 1960

Pre-production - Folk Art and Minnie Evans

To start our Pre-production module we were given a card at random with an art movement on it and asked to find and research an artists from this movement, I was given Folk Art. At first this confused me because of the shire volume of art works considered to be 'folk art' as any art produced by someone with out artist training or by an 'outsider artist' is considered to be in this movement. By its very nature Folk art becomes part of our lives so finding some stand alone pieces was difficult, however I came across an artist called Minnie Evans.

Evans was an African American artist who often used different medias in her work such as wax and crayons, being inspired to draw from visions that came to her in dreams, she is considered to be not only a Folk artists but also a surrealist and visionary artist. There was something in her stylized swirls and patterns that I really liked and throught would really lead itself to an absatract aniamtion style, I produced a copy of her piece 'Untitled (Faces at Median) - Minnie Evans 1960', using pens and markers.