The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Figure in a Landscape
1960
(French, 1901–1985)
Sheet: 30.4 x 23.7 cm (11 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden 1963.586
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: Not on view
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.- Henning, Edward B. “The Language of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 9 (November 1964): 211–231. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 228-229, fig. 13 www.jstor.org
- French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966).CMA, Prints and Drawings 1916-1965 (May 20-July 24, 1966).Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).CMA, The Year in Review for 1964 (Jan. 1-31, 1965), cma Bulletin 51 (1964), p. 266 no. 158.
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