A vintage pastel painting on paper depicting a bird in the manner of Naive Expressionism. Unsigned. Naive or Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate primitive experience. It is also defined as a philosophical doctrine that considers primitive peoples as more noble than civilized peoples and was an offshoot of a nostalgia for a lost Eden or Golden Age. Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. One of a kind artwork.