How did primitivism begin? a. artists wanted to embrace high society, while displaying its animalistic characteristics. b. artists were contemptuous toward city life and decadence. c. artists were jealous. d. all of the above

b. Artists were contemptuous toward city life and decadence.

Explanation:

The artists found it primitivism as an art that rejected Western sophistication, the interest arises for being a movement that was not corrupted by the Western look. The artist found the natural, the spontaneous, the authentic and the innocent characterized that style of art, in contrast to the society in which they lived.