JEAN DUBUFFET
Photograph from pacegallery.com.
About
Jean Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre, France. From an early age, he showed an interest in art, but his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris were brief. Dubuffet became disillusioned with academic art and, after a period working in his family's wine business, he returned to art with a completely new perspective. His dissatisfaction with mainstream art led him to explore purer and more authentic forms of expression.
ARTWORK
Dubuffet is known for his raw and seemingly childlike style, using unconventional materials such as sand, tar and rubble in his works. His most iconic series, such as "L'Hourloupe" and "Célébration du sol", reflect a constant search for the primitive and the visceral. Dubuffet not only created art, but also theorised about it, coining the term "art brut" to describe the creations of people outside the conventional art world, such as psychiatric patients and children.
Fundó la Compagnie de l'Art Brut en 1948, dedicándose a coleccionar y promover obras de artistas autodidactas y marginales. Esta colección, que hoy reside en Lausana, Suiza, es una prueba tangible de su compromiso con el arte auténtico y no contaminado por las influencias académicas y culturales.
Dubuffet argued that contemporary art should free itself from the shackles of conventional aesthetics and market expectations. For him, art was not a product to be consumed, but an authentic expression of human experience. This vision led him to value and promote the works of those who, from the margins of society, produced art that was truly innovative and emotive.
