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Figure in a Landscape

1960

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
Culture
France, 20th century
Medium
brush and black ink
Support
Cream(1) wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 30.4 x 23.7 cm (11 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden 1963.586
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Dubuffet dedicated himself to art full-time after World War II. He sought alternatives to traditional Western culture’s dependency on logic, reason, and narrow standards of beauty. He coined the term Art Brut (Raw Art) referring to art produced by people outside of the established art world, such as the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric hospitals, and prisoners. Dubuffet believed that Art Brut sprang from pure invention, uncorrupted by educational training and social constraints, and was evidence of the originality that all humans innately possess. By imbuing his work with unaccustomed crudeness or banality, Dubuffet sought to startle the viewer out of his acquired aesthetic responses.

Figure in a Landscape

1960

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
France, 20th century

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