De-skilling
The purposeful adoption of a poor visual language or technique, with the intention to appear untrained and without skill. A tactic used by artists to make 'bad art' and distance themselves from 'high art' and intellectual or academic pursuits.
"There is so much sophisticated drawing around at the moment, we need more rough, direct de-skilled drawing, and anti-aesthetic work to counterbalance this elegance"
Donated by Gerry Davies