Primitivism: Facts

Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?

Facts on topics related to Primitivism

Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
Nordic Classicism (example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements, Art Nouveau and Functionalism?
the Temple of Human Passions, first building of Art Nouveau's architect Victor Horta, was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?

Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?
Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
painter Herman Rose was noted for his Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of cityscapes?
the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande resulted in the death of the French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille whilst leading his unit in the attack?
the painter Andrés de Santa Maria (pictured) was the pioneer of impressionism and modern art in Colombia?

Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?

Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada?
Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, later two of Dadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?

Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art?
French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism" for the role he played in birth of the art movement?

Bulgarian–Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff, an honorary citizen of Turin, studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar?
the Polish literary critic Ostap Ortwin would wake up the people of Lwów by loudly threatening futurism in the middle of a night and then abuse the policemen who’d ask him for identification?