Jean DubuffetFrench, 1901–1985Figure in a Landscape
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Dubuffet dedicated himself to art full-time after World War II. He sought alternatives to traditional Western culture’s dependency on logic, reason, and narrow standards of beauty. He coined the term Art Brut (Raw Art) referring to art produced by people outside of the established art world, such as the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric hospitals, and prisoners. Dubuffet believed that Art Brut sprang from pure invention, uncorrupted by educational training and social constraints, and was evidence of the originality that all humans innately possess. By imbuing his work with unaccustomed crudeness or banality, Dubuffet sought to startle the viewer out of his acquired aesthetic responses.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1963.586
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Meanwhile, in the life of Jean Dubuffet
The whole life11 July 1959 – 11 October 1959
Exhibition: Documenta II
1960
402 works at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
In 1960 the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris showed 402 works by Dubuffet.
late 1960 – 1961
Musical experiments with Asger Jorn
In late 1960–1961 Dubuffet began experimenting with music and sound and made several recordings with the Danish painter Asger Jorn, a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA.
1962
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
In 1962 the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed eighty-five of Dubuffet's works.
