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“Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions"

  • Art, Contemporary art
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Time Out says

This survey—the first of its kind in more than 20 years—explores the work of Dubuffet (1901–1985). One of the major figures of the School of Paris revival following the end of World War II, he’s best known for his pioneering interest in what we call outsider art today, but which he termed Art Brut. He was especially fascinated by the work produced by the institutionalized, and it’s easy to see how he may have seen a traumatized postwar Europe reflected in their often inchoate visions. He promoted and collected work by Art Brut artists, and was also influenced by them, particularly in the frenetic, agitated quality of his figurative work. He also created overall abstractions that followed up on American AbEx with deeply textured surfaces that incorporated sand or studio detritus to suggest scorched or blasted landscapes.

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