Definition of "primitivist" [primitivist]

• Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms (adjective)
• A proponent of primitivism. (noun)

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• "One of the problems that confronted the primitivist was the discovery, if possible, of the natural man — the man who followed nature rather than custom or opin - ion, and who was a living exemplar of the primitivistic life."
• "The Archbishop opened his lecture by noting importantly that the very term sharia is not only misunderstood, but is the focus of much fear and anxiety deriving from its 'primitivist' application in some contexts."
• "Gaugin: The painter who invented his own brand of artistic licence life and work for which he can be reverentially remembered: his extensive travels, his experimentalism and his "primitivist" painting style honed in Tahiti - a bold reaction against the Impressionism embraced by most of his"