Jean Dubuffet
1901-1985

Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre. He was one
of the most famous French painters and sculptors of
the second half of the 20th century. In 1918 he went to
Paris where he gave up his course in painting at the
Académie Julian after six months and started working on
his own. The driving force behind these early works was
Dubuffet's entirely novel and extraordinary painting
technique. He combined almost any element with the paint
surface, including cement, tar, gravel, leaves, silver foil,
dust and even butterfly wings. Dubuffet coined the term Art
Brut (meaning "raw art," oftentimes referred to as ‘outsider art’)

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