neoprimitive
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neoprimitive (comparative more neoprimitive, superlative most neoprimitive)
- Related to the neoprimitivism movement.
- 1996 April 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “These Magic Moments”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Perhaps an equivalent influence on Davies is the movie The Night of the Hunter and its arsenal of neoprimitive, childlike imagery and rural, homespun folk poetry--its starry skies and oversized moon, its troubled Christianity, its lyricized and almost generic treatment of madness, its period street scenes that remind you of magazine ads for hair tonic and talcum powder.