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Dubuffet Jean
Dubuffet as Architect (Editions Hazan)
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As the champion of "Art Brut," the artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) is remembered foremost as a painter. Yet his creative instinct extended far beyond the parameters of paint. Later in his life, in 1965, his interest in architecture was sparked by a commission for two large-scale paintings for the University of Nanterre in Paris. Although he ultimately abandoned that project, he became intrigued by the idea of producing large works in a more enduring format, capable of withstanding the elements. He experimented with different media in search of a solution, producing works in ceramic, concrete, and eventually plastic resin. The large size and relief surface of his 1967 Mur Bleu (Blue Wall) catapulted his painting into the third dimension in a big way. Many commissions followed, and today Dubuffet's massive architectural forms grace several cities across the globe. The artist did not intend for these structures to be mere supports for his paintings; he meant for them to give his work architectural space. His efforts in this area earned him the medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1982. These stunningly inventive and playful works stand as a testament to Dubuffet's desire to expand his practice through new materials and techniques—and even into new dimensions. Dubuffet as Architect is the first published account of this little-known aspect of this artist's work.
Jean Dubuffet: Works, Writings, Interviews (Essentials Poligrafa)
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As an enemy of culture and of the art of museums, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was also an anarchist, an atheist, anti-military and unpatriotic. He was an explosive force, a rebel who rejected labels and categories, resolute in his quest for freedom from all constraints, and not incidentally one of the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century. Over an extraordinarily productive career from 1942 to 1985, Dubuffet found himself drawn to the art of children and madmen, which he endowed with legitimacy and credibility as Art Brut. This in turn inclined him towards extreme forms and the expressive scrawls and scribbles of graffiti, and prompted him to begin experimenting with materials such as bitumen, sand and plant fibers, which made him one of the earliest and most prominent Matter artists. As a prolific writer, and sometimes a cruel polemicist, Dubuffet left a storehouse of written work that offers invaluable insight into his vision of art.
Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality
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Dubuffet Prints from the Museum of Modern Art
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from the Foreword: "Arguably the most significant figurative artist to emerge in Europe following World War II, Jean Dubuffet challenged traditional attitudes toward art, creating an expansive body of work inspired by the everyday and the art of children and the insane. Dubuffet elevated objects previously overlooked or considered unsuitable as subject matter - decaying walls and cluttered streets became the backdrop for compressed, highly charge tableaus of people riding bicycles, gathering potatoes, or giving birth. Dubuffet also incorporated the substance of the environment - dirt, grass, leaves, pebbles - into his visual vocabulary, resulting in an endless array of textural studies. This exhibition highlights Dubuffet's printmaking activities, which largely paralleled the artist's work in painting and sculpture. However, Dubuffet regarded printmaking as a distinct activity within his oeuvre. In the mid-1940's, soon after he seriously committed himself to a career in art, Dubuffet began to make prints. The seventy prints included in the exhibition, a sampling of the more than six hundred prints created by the artist, reflect Dubuffet's antitraditional approach to aesthetics and illustrate his continual experimentation with the materials and techniques of printmaking. Dubuffet Prints is the result of a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. . . .Copyright 1989. 107 pages including Foreword, Selected Bibliography.
Dubuffet Jean News
Wednesday-music.com review: Art Brut
Creative Loafing Tampa - Aug 19, 2009
Eccentric and uber-funny English and German art punk/wave band Art Brut are named after French painter Jean Dubuffet's definition of outsider art: art made
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Exhibition preview: Scottie Wilson/Ou...
guardian.co.uk - Aug 07, 2009
Exhibition preview: Scottie Wilson/Outside In, Chichester being collected by Picasso and Jean Dubuffet, who was a great promoter of outsider art, and the 60s saw him designing dinnerware for Royal Worcester.
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Art meets nature in Netherlands' nati...
Earthtimes (press release) (press release) - Aug 25, 2009
Art meets nature in Netherlands' national parkAmong rhododendron and wind-blown pines, works by Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Richard Serra, Jean Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg can be and more »
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Gray's Auctioneers 23rd Fine Art, Ant...
News-antique.com (press release) - May 17, 3422
Gray's Auctioneers 23rd Fine Art, Antiques and Decorations AuctionIn addition Gray's is also offering pieces by Jean DuBuffet (French, 1901-1985), Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian, 1868-1945), and a remarkable
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The 10 best offbeat treats in Switzer...
Dallas Morning News - May 17, 658
The 10 best offbeat treats in SwitzerlandIn 1945, the artist Jean Dubuffet began collecting art he called brut: untrained, ignoring rules, highly original, produced by people free from artistic
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