Word: primitivist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
...Primitivist Pippin paints mostly at night, still works months on each picture. He and his wife (who calls him "Pippin") live happily on his wound benefit and the washing she takes in, always have turkey for Christmas, goose for New Year's, guinea fowl for their birthdays. Says Horace Pippin: "My opinion of art is that a man . . . paints from his heart and mind. To me it seems impossible for another to teach...