Jean Dubuffet

(1901- 1985)

Papa la cravate (Daddy Necktie)

Epoxy and Polyurethane paint

6 m

(1973)

• Influenced by the writings of Modernists
• Even though he was an artist throughout the birth of Surrealism and Communism, he didn't indulge in their practices. 
• His proffesional life was being a Wine seller. An unusual job for an artist of that era.
• His main art practice evolved around painting. However, he used painting and decorating materials such as plaster and pebbles, unusual mediam in the art world at that time. 
• His later works were high relief impasto.
• The majority of his paintings  consisted of striking outlines and scored lines within the paint.
• Dubuffet worked at great speed and preferred to leave a picture unfinished.
• Throughout his career, he seperated himself from the education he recieved in his younger years, pushing away Western tradition and accepting Africian and primitive forms of art.
• He was fasinated with work created by the mentally ill and visionaries. 
• Inspired by the graphic and visual aspects of language.
• He had a sense of humour, seen in his works.
• Jean Dubuffet interests me due to the fact that he creates faces not in the strict sense, but detects the universial essentials of facial features.
• He also caught my attention due to his 'assembalages' where he uses lithograph prints and creates collages.
• His most distinct and longest period of work was called 'Hourloupe'

Information gathered from 'Jean Dubuffet'- Laurent Danchin. Terrail publications. ISBN- 2-87939-240-3

Claire eau de barbe ( Clear Beard Water)

Assemblage and oil on paper

77x57cm

(1959)

Raisons complex ( Complex reasons)

Oil on hardboard

68x33 cm 

(1952)

L'offruer de bouquet  (Man offering bouquet)

Indian Ink on Paper and prints assemblage

50x33cm

(1957)

Belle au regard masque (Masked Beauty)

Butterfly wing collage

25x18 cm

(1953)