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unconventional materials (glass; textile fragments; buttons; butterfly wings) to his paintings.
The use of
the unconventional materials suggest that the artist is associated to the art informel but this is a pretext
for Dubuffet to « build » his art brut in the 1945.
The artist is interested by the popular arts, the graffiti,
kids drawings and the mental ill ( insane ) artworks.
In his artistic process, he assumes that art should
be practice by anybody that doesn't need talent or instruction, to be an art of jubilation.
In 1948, he
precises the notion of art brut that any work is exclude definitively from all art tradition, it should be
primitive, a popular art, a naive art.
In 1949, Jean Dubuffet wrote the text, « L' Art brut préféré aux arts
culturels » , where he proposed art brut as a new art trend that contains spontaneous character and
highly creative, any sort of works is produced by authors outside the established art scene.
A translated
citation from the artist in the text, « L'Art brut préféré aux arts culturels », we find a statement that
confirms the intention of the art brut :
“We are assisting at the artistic operation that is pure, brute, reinvented in the whole in
all the process by the author, based on his own impulsion...” 2
L'art brut (raw art) is considered to be a more authentic spontaneous form of expression, a
contradictory concept of art without the artist, without the intention of art, outside the commercial
circuit, a natural concrete work.
Dubuffet founded a group, la Compagnie de l'Art Brut , in which André
Breton (Surrealism), Michel Tapié (Art Informel) and others are members.
In the 50's, he ceases the
activities of la Compagnie de l'Art Brut , he had some tension with André Breton which he believes that
Breton wanted to make art brut as a « surrealism department » 3
.
In the book, Modern European Art by
Alan Bowness, we find a citation of Dubuffet that represents the philosophy behind Art Brut :
« I want to be as through newborn, knowing absolutely nothing about Europe, ignoring facts
and fashion, to be almost primitive » 4
The artistic technique used to make the painting, « Paysage aux ardus » , is assemblage, a sort of
2 Translated from, “DUBUFFET ET L'ART BRUT” , MAM, accessed Mars 3, 2014, http://mam.cudl-
lille.fr/mam/data/sandbox/pj3.pdf
3 “DUBUFFET ET L'ART BRUT” .
4 Alan Bowness, Modern European Art (London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1972), 169-170.
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- Art brut : ce terme, employé par le peintre Jean Dubuffet à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, désigne les " oeuvres " créées sans intention artistique ou esthétique, mais obéissant plutôt à un besoin, à une pulsion créatrice ou expressive.
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