self-taught art

1. 1.

   a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists

   Synonymsoutsider artvernacular artnaive artprimitive art

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Questions about self-taught art

What does self-taught art mean?

self-taught art means "a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists".

What is another word for self-taught art?

Close synonyms include outsider art, vernacular art, naive art, primitive art. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-taught art a common word?

self-taught art is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.