Naive (Primitive) as an art style earned significance in contemporary art and has been continually attracting attention of art critics and collectors since the last half of the XXth century. Sometimes art critics define Naive as Folk Art because of their common simplicity. Indeed, naive artists may address folk subjects and themes in their artworks. However, Folk Art, as an attribute of a certain ethnic group is an embodiment of traditions established by the generations during ages. Unlike the folk crafters naive artists demonstrate prominent identity of the style independently of their ethnic origin. Among the properties of Naive is disregard for traditional rules of perspective and proportion. To make an illusion of space naive artists use color effects and clearly drawn lines. Naive artists can be divided into two groups: highly educated professional artists who use all their skills in painting, and gifted hobbyist or "Sunday painters", who paint for fun. Both these groups brake strict rules of traditional painting either deliberately (rather professional case) or upon "ignorance" (in the case of amateurs) for the aim of transferring their personal cogitation with purity of heart and thought. Naive art is the only art style that might be delightfully positive like children´s world is. To stress the importance of an object Naive artists make it larger or brighter than all other objects in the picture, the same way as children do. Philosophical and religious aspects of Naive might have been best of all expressed by the following citation of Jesus: "...whoever humbless himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." (Matthew 18:4). Among well known Naive artists are: Grandma Moses, Niko Pirosmani, Maud Levis. .

Some of the artists working in this manner:

     Marina Chernova
     Oleg Davtyan
     Alexey Davtyan
     Sergey Evdokimov
     Vladimir Gruzdev
     Igor Kalinauskas
     Anton Makarov
     Svetlana Ponomarenko
     Victor Ustinov