French artist (1901–1985)
He collected the art of asylum inmates and self-taught obsessives, then made his own work look like theirs — on purpose. Dubuffet built a career convincing the art world that untrained vision mattered more than technique.
Born 31 July 1901, Dubuffet spent decades in his family's wine business before committing to painting in his forties. He rejected the polished standards of the École de Paris and went hunting for what he called "art brut" — raw work by psychiatric patients, prisoners, children, anyone outside the academy. The Collection de l'art brut grew into a manifesto: authenticity lived in the margins, not the museums. His own canvases adopted the same rough vocabulary, thick with tar and gravel, figurative but deliberately crude. Exhibitions in France and America followed through the decades until his de…
Sourced, dated quotes from Jean Dubuffet
In portraits you need a lot of general, very little of specific. Usually there is too much specificity, always too much..
This character of depersonalization is certainly a constant of all my personages..
In all my works.. .. I have always had recourse to one never-varying method.
The Occidental man is not so bad.. .Not bad at all, the brave Aryan [inhabitant of the Saraha].. .I'm not unhappy to be living with him again..
Every piece of information about these statues is totally useless.. .What . import is it to us if their author was a bureaucrat or a cowherd, an old man or a young person?
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