Artwork Replica Grand Maitre of the Outsider, 1947 by Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (Inspired By) (1901-1985, France) | WahooArt.com

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"Grand Maitre of the Outsider"

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 1947
Jean Dubuffet had many interests apart from painting but never seemed to be able to indulge excessively as he would return to his family wine shop repeatedly. He had dropped his studies and rejected the conventions laid upon by ‘cultural art’ and pursued Art Brut or ‘raw art’, art by children, unskilled and mentally challenged people. He believed that this was real art, art that revealed raw expressions without the scrutiny of conventions. Grand Maitre of the Outsider is the perfect example of Art Brut, the figure is drawn with crude simple shapes, a parody of a portrait. The figure is presumably an older male, suggested by the shape of the glasses and the scarcity of hair and the angry expression. The painting is simple in its technique but conveys a sense of disdain and annoyance. Dubuffet paints with heavy impasto that is thickened with unusual material like sand, tar and straw that would give his canvas a rough textured surface.

 





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