vernacular art

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsoutsider artself-taught artnaive artprimitive art

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Questions about vernacular art

What does vernacular art mean?

vernacular 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 vernacular art?

Close synonyms include outsider art, self-taught 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 vernacular art a common word?

vernacular 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.