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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 turning to art for good in 1942. His first solo show came in 1944. He approaches the surrealist group in 1948, then the College of Pataphysique in 1954.
Dubuffet was influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1924), and coined the term Art Brut for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by mental patients, prisoners, and children. Dubuffet sought to create an art as free from intellectual concerns of that as Art Brut, and his work often appears primitive and child-like.
Many of Dubuffet's works are painted in oil paint using an impastoImpasto is a technique used in painting where paint is laid on the canvas very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. Impasto features strongly in many oil paintin thickened by materials such as sandSand is an example of a class of materials called granular matter. Sand is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, comprising particles or granules ranging in size from 0. 063 to 2 mm. An individual particle in this range size is termed a sand grain ., tarFor the computer term, see tar file format. Tar is a viscous black liquid which is derived from the destructive distillation of organic matter. Most tar is produced from coal as a byproduct of coke production, but it can also be produced from petroleum, w and strawStraw is the dry stalk of a cereal plant, after the nutrient grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of a cereal crop such as wheat, oats, rye or barley. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by-product of the harves, giving the work an unusually textured surface. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colours red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculptureSculptor redirects here. You may also be looking for Sculptor (constellation). Greece Sculpture is any three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. Sculpting is the art of assembling or shaping an object. It may be of any size and of any suit, producing works in polystyrenePolystyrene Density1050 kg/m3 Electrical conductivity(σ)10-16 (m· ohm)-1 Thermal conductivity0. 08 W/(m·K) Polystyrene is a polymer made from styrene, a liquid that is commercially manufactured from petroleum, although it is also found in plants. which he then painted with vinyl paint .