Featured Is this Doggie Painting considered FOLK ART?

I am assuming it is AUGUST COISTER. I purchased this on eBay.FR about 15 years ago for $20 plus $80 for shipping!! Is this considered folk art. Or???

Thanks!

 

i don't see that as folk art..!
more like Animal art...

 

The overall impression is naive. The technique lacks the sophistication of a classically trained animalier. Could be a copy. Whoever painted it put their best foot forward.

I wonder about what seems to be an overall brown wash. Is that just discolored varnish? It's looks to be very unevenly applied.

 

Folk art is a broad and slippery description. The difference between fine and folk seems to lie in whether the artist has been formally trained or not. I'd say yes, you could comfortably describe this one as folk, simply because of its naivete. I did find his name listed, but no bio so I don't know his training history. Another painting by him shows the similar folk-ish technique.

 

To me it looks like the dog has been copied from another picture and just inserted onto the landscape, it doesn't seem to be really standing on the ground, and the quality of the landscape is nowhere near as good as that of the dog. What would he be looking at so intently in that open field? Strangely dream-like and disturbing, but it is the oddness of some paintings which keep you looking at them.

 

Odd, isn't it? A more accomplished dog superimposed upon a less than accomplished background with no respect for proportion. In that, of course, lies your painting's charm.

Debora

 

The genre scene is entitled 'Oude Vrouw Breland,' Dutch for 'Old Woman Breland.'

Debora

 

I think the dog has great character. Shadows would have attached the dog to the ground but I think the artist want to mostly depict the dog. I would have bought that one If I didn't have to pay all that shipping!

 

You're right. Consider my remark above amended to... "with no respect for proportion or gravity!"

Debora

 

Interesting replies! THANKS for all the great info!!