Jean Dubuffet
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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty i
Jean Dubuffet in 1960
Jean Dubuffet, 1960
Court les rues (1962) at the Milwaukee Art Museum, an example of a non-painterly Dubuffet painting
Outsider art
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Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.
Jean Dubuffet
…standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art brut movement, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France…
Adolf Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910
Anna Zemánková, No title, 1960s
Niko Pirosmani, Deer, 1901