Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre, July 31, 1901 - Paris, May 12, 1985) is a French painter, sculptor and visual artist.
He is the first theorist of an art style to which he gave the name of "art brut", the productions of marginalized or mentally ill: paintings sculptures, calligraphies, which he admits to have himself largely inspired .
On October 20, 19...
Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre, July 31, 1901 - Paris, May 12, 1985) is a French painter, sculptor and visual artist.
He is the first theorist of an art style to which he gave the name of "art brut", the productions of marginalized or mentally ill: paintings sculptures, calligraphies, which he admits to have himself largely inspired .
On October 20, 1945, the first "marking exhibition" in Paris liberated was that of his works at the René Drouin gallery, while he was still an unknown painter, provoking a real scandal. He is also the author of vigorous criticisms of the dominant culture, especially in his essay Asphyxiante Culture which creates a polemic in the world of art. On the occasion of the first exhibition of his collection of crude art which he organized in 1949, he wrote a treatise L'Art brut preferred to the cultural arts.
Officially propelled to the front of the artistic scene by a retrospective of four hundred paintings, gouaches, drawings, sculptures which takes place at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris from 16 December 1960 to 25 February 1961, the most contested French artist and More admired after the war creates the event of this beginning of the year. He became the inspiration for many artists, adepts of "art autre", variant of the art brut, among them Antoni Tàpies as well as followers of artistic contestation like the Spanish group Equipo Crónica.
His work is composed of paintings, assemblages often mistakenly called "collages", sculptures and monuments of which the most spectacular are part of a set, L'Hourloupe (1962-1974) as well as architectures: the Closerie Falbala and Villa Falbala. It was the subject of retrospectives at the Grassi Palace in Venice, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
His personal collection, the Collection of the art brut, which since 1945 had gathered artists discovered in prisons, asylums, marginalized people of all kinds, then owned by the Crude Art Company founded in 1948, should have remained in Paris . But the delays of the French administration prompted Dubuffet to accept the offer of the city of Lausanne in Switzerland, where the collection was installed at the castle of Beaulieu and definitely given.
Considered to be of little avail, procedurier, atrabilaire, he was often angry with his entourage. Before the death of Dubuffet in 1985, Jean-Louis Prat had all the trouble to organize the retrospective of one hundred and fifty paintings of the artist, which will finally take place from July 6 to October 6 at the Maeghtnote 1 foundation.
On the other hand, he was generous, as his friends Alexandre Vialatte, Alphonse Chave Philippe Dereux, and many donations made during his lifetime, among others, a set of twenty-one pictures, seven sculptures and a hundred - two drawings in the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris from his personal collection.
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