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Jean Dubuffet

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Also known as Louis-Léon Forget, Jandu Bufe, Jean-Philippe-Arthur Dubuffet, Louis-Leon Forget, Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet

French artist (1901–1985)

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Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French painter, sculptor, visual artist, and writer. Born in Le Havre, he was educated at the Académie Julian and later died in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. His artistic practice was associated with the outsider art and Informalism movements. Dubuffet was a member of the College of 'Pataphysics and the Royal Academy of Arts. He participated in Documenta II, Documenta III, and the 4. documenta.

His notable work includes *Monument with Standing Beast*. Dubuffet used several pseudonyms, including Jan du qu, J. Dubufe, and Louis-Léon Bendy. He wrote in French, and his literary works include *Ustensiles, demeures, escaliers de Jean Dubuffet*, *Paris Circus*, *Les murs*, *Couinque*, and *La Donation Dubuffet au Musée des arts décoratifs*. His artworks are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He is buried in Tubersent.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1901
Died
1985
Works
166

Top works

  • Ustensiles, demeures, escaliers de Jean Dubuffet
  • Paris Circus
  • Les murs
  • Couinque
  • La Donation Dubuffet au Musée des arts décoratifs

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
France
Active from
1901
Active to
1985

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,296
Total plays
11,179

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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (July 31, 1901 - May 12, 1985) was one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Dubuffet was born in Le Havre. He moved to Paris in 1918 to study painting at the Académie Julian, but after six months he left the Académie to study independently. In 1924, doubting the value of art, he stopped painting and took over his father's business selling wine. He took up painting again in the 1930s, but again stopped, only turnin

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,769x

  2. Situated Learning

    · 1991 · cited 30,513x

  3. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,136x

  4. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,614x

  5. Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes

    · 1977 · cited 19,832x

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Quotes

  • “What an adventure you have thrown me into! Nothing was farther from my thoughts than doing portraits! Now it's all I think about.. ..and i's all your handiwork”
  • “People Are Much More Beautiful Than They Think: Long Live Their True Face.”
  • “Portrait likenesses cooked and preserved in memory, likenesses burst in the memory of Mr. Jean Dubuffet, painter.”
  • “..the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered [in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946] was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.”
  • “The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.”
  • “[Dubuffet marvels at the desert as a chaotic palimpsest, filled with marks and signs] ..like an immense notebook of disorganization, a notebook of improvisation.. ..an elementary school blackboard full of scribbles..”

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ filip aʁtyʁ dybyfɛ]; 31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris (School of Paris). His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional 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 and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime.

Early life

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