With most genres of art that are widely known today, there are famous artists associated with them. For example, we all know of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Starry Night. But what about art created by often anonymous, untrained artists such as folk art? Often seen as crude, superficial or unimportant compared to the popular artwork we admire, folk art has largely been relegated to an area of curiosity or sociological study. There is some truth in this assessment, of course, as folk…
