Oľga Danglová
From a European perspective, folk art in its “traditional” form is an authentic, unsophisticated art, both decorative and practical, taking its roots in the collective awareness of simple people. In the Central European context, the signs of its creation were related to social differentiation and the clearly different living standards of the upper, aristocratic-bourgeois class, and the lower rural class. Farmers and shepherds were the main representatives of the latter class, whose way of life and material expressions for a long time retained the traits of a pre-modern and pre-industrial world. In some regions of Slovakia, this tendency persisted until the mid-20th century.