 Modern Cuban artists continue to do significant work in this tradition, including Juan Ramón Valdés Gómez (called Yiki) and Jose Angel Toirac Batista.According to European and North American Art critics, Naïve art is usually recognized by its childlike freshness and amateurish qualities, such as lack of accurate perspective, little or no modeling, and bold coloration.Artists who work in this style are generally acknowledged as favoring a more "primitive" or "folk" style of art.