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primitive:
(plural: ‘primitives‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘i’ in all three positions is said with an ‘i’ sound as in “timber” or “ticket”)
Apart from other meanings/definitions related to science …
a primitive (a man belonging to the prehistoric times)
a person belonging to a social group/tribe/society which had/has no or with only a low level of education, advancement, culture;
a person without much sophistication, education and culture even in the present modern world;
an artist, especially a painter, who belonged to the time period before the 14th century, (i.e. pre-renaissance time)
an artist with ordinary, simple and direct way of exhibiting his/her artistic style;
any self-trained or self-taught artist,
a primitive (artist) with his primitive (painting)
e.g.
A team of anthropologists has started on an expedition to study the primitives in the remote parts of the African forest.
She is such a primitive that her paintings are appreciated only by the lowbrow.
An artist who belongs to the early stages of any art style is also called a ‘primitive’.
(a sample of a primitive art style)
{Note 1: ‘Primitive’ is more commonly used as an adjective to qualify something that is not developed fully or something that is not very sophisticated, e.g. ‘primitive societies’ = societies which were in their early stages of development in the past; ‘primitive methods’ = the methods which are not very advanced or which are very simple and ordinary, such as making a fire from pieces of stones and tinder.}
{Note 2: ‘Primitive’ as a noun is also used to refer to a painting that is in its early stages or that is drawn by a primitive.}
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