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Jean Dubuffet

French painter and sculptor who founded the art brut movement.

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Jean Dubuffet

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Dubuffet coined the term art brut for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms.[1] On 12 May 1985, emphysema caused Dubuffet's death in Paris.[2]

Life and work

Dubuffet moved to Paris in 1918 to study painting at the Académie Julian.[3] In 1945, he was strongly impressed by a show of Jean Fautrier's paintings.[4] His impasto technique was best manifested in the series 'Hautes Pâtes' exhibited in 1946.[4] After six months at the Académie, he departed because he disliked the formal training and then taught himself.[5]

The year 1942 marked Dubuffet's choice to recommit himself to making art.[6] Everyday scenes—for instance, commuters on the Paris Métro—frequently supplied his subject matter.[6] Following Fautrier's example, Dubuffet began blending heavy oil paint with substances like mud, sand, and coal dust.[4] A personal collection of art brut was later assembled by Dubuffet, featuring works by Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli.[7]

For the Kröller-Müller Museum, Dubuffet produced Jardin d'émail in 1974, a sizable outdoor painted sculpture.[8]

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Once inside this art garden, visitors can imagine themselves in a completely different world.[9] The sculpture measures circa 8 × 20 × 30 meters and is made of concrete, glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin, and polyurethane paint.[9] That auction's top lot was La féconde journée, which soared past its pre-sale upper estimate of £2 million.[10] The work was executed on 16 May 1976 and is acrylic on paper collage on canvas.[11]

According to the museum's own description, Jardin d'émail is an artwork that people are allowed to touch and to walk through.[9] At a Phillips auction held in London on 15 April 2021, Dubuffet's La féconde journée achieved a sale price of £4,378,500.[10][11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Selz, Peter. The Work of Jean Dubuffet, with Texts by the Artist. New York: New York Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Print. P. 19 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Russell, "Jean Dubuffet, Painter and Sculptor, Is Dead", The New York Times, 1985-05-15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colin-Picon, M., Georges Limbour: le songe autobiographique, Lachenal & Ritter, Paris, 1994. (Collection of letters between Limbour and Dubuffet, with biographi; (fr)Journal de l'année, 1986 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Selz, Peter. The Work of Jean Dubuffet, with Texts by the Artist. New York: New York Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Print.; D'Souza, Aruna. "I Think Your Work Looks A Lot Like Dubuffet: Dubuffet and America, 1946-1962". Oxford Art Journal 20.2 (1997): 61.; D'Souza, Aruna. "I Think Your Work Looks A Lot Like Dubuffet: Dubuffet and America, 1946-1962". Oxford Art Journal 20.2 (1997): 61.; D'Souza, Aruna. "I Think Your Work Looks A Lot Like Dubuffet: Dubuffet and America, 1946-1962". Oxford Art Journal 20.2 (1997): 61. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Selz, Peter. The Work of Jean Dubuffet, with Texts by the Artist. New York: New York Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Print.; Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 238-240; Selz, Peter. The Work of Jean Dubuffet, with Texts by the Artist. New York: New York Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Print.; Selz, Peter. The Work of Jean Dubuffet, with Texts by the Artist. New York: New York Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Print. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colin-Picon, op. cit. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Minturn, Kent. "Dubuffet, Levi-Strauss, and the Idea of Art Brut". Anthropology and Aesthetics 46 (2004): 247-258. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Jean Dubuffet" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jardin d'émail, 1974", krollermuller (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Jardin d'émail, 1974", krollermuller. facts only, no text reused. krollermuller.nl
  10. "Phillips's Spring Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London Generated a Solid £24.8 Million, Up Nearly a Fifth From Last Year Artnet News", news.artnet.com, 15 April 2021. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
  11. "Jean Dubuffet, La féconde journée", www.phillips.com. facts only, no text reused. phillips.com

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