Yes, artless could mean lacking in art, but more often it means lacking in superficiality or deceit. An artless person could never make a living as a con artist.
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Adjective
simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"
Adjective
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
Adjective S.
(of persons) lacking art or knowledge
Adjective S.
showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
a.
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
a.
Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
a.
Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized
by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as,
an artless mind; an artless tale.
Artless
Artless of stars and of the moving sand.2.
Artless and massy pillars.3.
They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them.
O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
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