The debate about the extent to which need to simplify our lives and go back to basics with the invention of writing continues. In ancient times, the superiority of the simple life was expressed in the myth of a golden age passed in various genres of poetry and art known as pastoral. Disputes about the advantages and disadvantages of simple compared with complex life had gained new urgency after a meeting with a hitherto unknown peoples. Topics however, the mapping traditions of culture identity of the peoples emphasizes the historical role of primitivism. In the technique of execution, the plot is a monument to a primitive painting of the early period of the evolution of art. Work, belonging to the early stages of development of a culture with relatively low technique. To include the early stages of primitive art of every nation and primitive art since its opening. Prehistoric arts reflect the first person view about the world, thanks to him, maintained and passed the knowledge and skills, there is a dialogue with one another.

To the first manifestation of primitivism are rock Figures are usually applied in the caves. In the fifteenth century arguments about the alleged superiority of the indigenous peoples were primarily used as a rhetorical device, in order to criticize aspects of civilized societies. In the context of current to the sixteenth and seventeenth-century debates, there is known as the great controversy of the ancient and modern people over what is best, classic or modern poetry, folk literature. In the field of aesthetics continued bizarre claim that primitive man was closer to the sources of poetry and artistic inspiration, or civilized than modern man. In the eighteenth century defined in the Prolegomena originality of oral literature as examples of folk or oral tradition. Further development of these ideas was limited to a relatively small number of influential authors in the literature or lack of effective methods of communicating in the field of visual arts.