primitivist
Simplicity movement adherent
A primitivist advocates returning to simpler, pre-industrial ways of living, believing that civilization has corrupted humanity or degraded the natural world.
The term applies to political anarchists who reject modern technology, philosophers influenced by Rousseau's "noble savage" ideas, and artists who deliberately adopt crude or childlike styles: primitivist paintings, primitivist critiques of capitalism.
The stance ranges from nostalgic romanticism to radical anti-civilization ideology.
One opposing technological progress
- technophobiaDread of modern devices
- regressionReturn to former state
- deindustrializationLoss of industrial capacity
- reactionaryAnti-progress political stance
retrogression · unplugged · anti-consumerism · anti-progress
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
- anti-industrialismOpposition to factory-based economies
- anti-technologyOpposed to modern machinery
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
anti-capitalism · anti-globalization · communalism · egalitarianism · autonomy · subsistence · self-sufficiency · radicalism
Pre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- kinshipState of being related
totem · ritual · ancestors · nomadic · tribesman · elder · customs · folklore
French artist abroad
- ModiglianiItalian modernist painter-sculptor
- PicassoSpanish cubism co-founder
- BasquiatLate street-art painter
- folk-artTraditional community craftsmanship
expressionism · cubism · totemic · ritualistic · ethnographic · woodcarving · raw · ancestral
Aesthetic of reduction
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- elementalBasic, of natural forces
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
- spartanRigorously simple, unadorned
basic · rudimentary · crude · raw · unrefined · stripped-down · fundamental · plain
Return to simpler living
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
- bucolicIdyllically rural
- rusticRural and unrefined
- homesteadingSelf-reliant land-based lifestyle
pre-industrial · handmade · artisanal · off-grid · land-based · pastoralism · smallholding · peasant
Before contemporary times
- bygoneOf earlier times
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- romanticizedMade more appealing than reality
halcyon · retrospection · sentimentality · heritage · timeless · longing · wistfulness · edenic
Luddite
One opposing technological progress
- technophobiaDread of modern devices
- regressionReturn to former state
- deindustrializationLoss of industrial capacity
reactionary · retrogression · unplugged · anti-consumerism · anti-progress
Kaczynski
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
- anti-industrialismOpposition to factory-based economies
- anti-technologyOpposed to modern machinery
decolonization · anti-capitalism · anti-globalization · communalism · egalitarianism · autonomy · subsistence · self-sufficiency · radicalism · biocentrism
hunter-gatherer
Pre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
kinship · totem · ritual · ancestors · nomadic · tribesman · elder · customs · folklore · mythology
Gauguin
French artist abroad
- ModiglianiItalian modernist painter-sculptor
- PicassoSpanish cubism co-founder
- BasquiatLate street-art painter
folk-art · expressionism · cubism · totemic · ritualistic · ethnographic · woodcarving · raw · ancestral · mythological
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- elementalBasic, of natural forces
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
spartan · basic · rudimentary · crude · raw · unrefined · stripped-down · fundamental · plain · earthy
back-to-nature
Return to simpler living
homesteading · pre-industrial · handmade · artisanal · off-grid · land-based · pastoralism · smallholding · peasant · folk-ways
pre-modern
Before contemporary times
romanticized · halcyon · retrospection · sentimentality · heritage · timeless · longing · wistfulness · edenic · innocent
- eco-activistseco-warriors, eco-warrior, eco warriors, climate activists, tree hugger
primitivistmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
futurist · progressivist · avant-gardist · techno-utopian · progressive
primitivistsophisticate
Worldly, cultured person
classicist · formalist · mannerist · virtuoso · aesthete