William Gear
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William Gear RA RBSA was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for his abstract compositions. He was also a teacher, museum curator and in World War II an army officer.
Gear in his Edgbaston studio, August 1979
'Landscape' Sep 1951, oil on canvas
'Landscape with Orange' May 1961, oil on canvas
The blue plaque at Gear's house, Edgbaston, Birmingham
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
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…met Eduardo Paolozzi, Alan Davie, Stephen Gilbert and many of the leading post-war generation of Parisian artists including Atlan, Da Silva, De Staël, Dubuffet, Hartung, Mathieu, Pignon, Poliakoff, Schoffer, Singier, Soulages and Zadkine. In 1948 he held his first solo exhibitions in Paris and at Gimpel Fis…
Jean Dubuffet in 1960
Jean Dubuffet, 1960
Court les rues (1962) at the Milwaukee Art Museum, an example of a non-painterly Dubuffet painting