ART & ARTISTS: 2012-08-26

Friday, 31 August 2012

Jean Dubuffet - part 2

Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favour of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. For biographical notes on Dubuffet, and for earlier works, see part 1.

This is part 2 of a 4-part post on the works of Jean Dubuffet:

1946 Jean Paulhan
acrylic and oil on masonite 108.9 x 87.9 cm
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1946 Large Black Landscape
oil on board 155.1 x 118.6 cm
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1946 Miss Cholera
oil, sand, grit and straw on canvas 54.6 x 45.7 cm
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1946 Venus Pavement
oil on plaster board 102 x 82 cm
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1947 Monsieur Plume with Creases in his Trousers ( Portrait of Henri Michaux )
oil and grit on canvas 130.2 x 103.5 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1947 Pierre Matisse, dark portrait
oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm
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1947 The Hotel Shade of Apricot
oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm
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1947-48 Arab Between Palm Trees
44 x 55 cm
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1948 Bedouin on a Donkey
130 x 97 cm
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1948 Bedouins and Palm
gouache on paper 44.1 x 55.2 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1948 Camel, Arab, Gazelle, Palm
gouache on paper 45.7 x 56.5 cm
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1948 Morabito, Arab and Stuck Camel
37.5 x 54 cm
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1948 The Desert Theatre
gouache on paper 31 x 40.5 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1950 Corpse of a Woman
ink on paper 26.4 x 20 cm
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1950 Miss Araña
oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm
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1950 Muddy Ground Music ( Landscape with Violinist )
hardboard 65 x 81 cm
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1950 The Beautiful Heavy Breasts
oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm
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1950 The Tree of Fluids
oil on canvas 116.1 x 89 cm
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1951 Brown Hair and Fleshy Face
mixed media on canvas 64.9 x 54 cm
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1952 Furniture and Objects
oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm
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1952 Wild Places
gouache and oil on putty and hardboard 50.5 x 61 cm
© ProLitteris, Zürich
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1953 Fern in the Hat
lithograph 52.7 x 40 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Landscape
ink on cut paper, collaged 9.9 x 14.8 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Leaves with Bird
lithograph 47.2 x 48.7 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Peopling the Lands
lithograph 64.5 x 50 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Small Characters and Dogs
butterfly wings 24 x 17.5 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 Sylvain Hair
collage with butterfly wings 26.5 x 17.5 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1953 The Busy Life
oil on canvas 130.2 x 195.6 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 The Cow with the Subtile Nose
oil and enamel on canvas 88.9 X 116.1 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Jean Dubuffet - part 1

Self-Portrait 1936
oil on canvas 65.4 x 54.6 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 1985) was born in Le Havre, France. He attended art classes in his youth, and in 1918 moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, which he left after six months. During this time, Dubuffet met Raoul Dufy, Max Jacob, Fernand Léger, and Suzanne Valadon. He travelled to Italy in 1923 and South America in 1924. Then Dubuffet gave up painting for about ten years, working as an industrial draftsman and later in the family wine business. He committed himself to becoming an artist in 1942.

Dubuffet’s first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie René Drouin, Paris, in 1944. During the 1940s, he associated with André Breton, Georges Limbour, Jean Paulhan, and Charles Ratton. His style and subject matter in this period owed a debt to Paul Klee. From 1945, he collected Art Brut, spontaneous, direct works by untutored individuals, such as mental patients. The Pierre Matisse Gallery gave him his first solo show in New York in 1947.

From 1951 to 1952, Dubuffet lived in New York. He then returned to Paris, where a retrospective of his work took place at the Cercle Volney in 1954. His first museum retrospective occurred in 1957 at the Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen. Dubuffet exhibitions were subsequently held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1960 to 1961; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962; Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 1964; the Tate Gallery, London, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1966; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1966 to 1967.

A collection of Dubuffet’s writings, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants (Prospectus and all subsequent texts), was published in 1967, the same year he started his architectural structures. Soon thereafter, he began numerous commissions for monumental outdoor sculptures. In 1971, he produced his first theatre props, the “practicables.” A Dubuffet retrospective was presented at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, and the Joseph-Haubrichkunsthalle, Cologne (1980–81). In 1981, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum observed the artist’s 80th birthday with an exhibition. Jean Dubuffet died in 1985 in Paris.

This is part 1 of a 4-part post on the works of Jean Dubuffet:

1924-25 Botanical Lesson
oil on canvas 60 x 49 cm
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1924-25 Cherries and Smoker
oil on canvas 45 x 37 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1942 Two Naked Women
gouache 60 x 47 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1943 A Man with a Cat
charcoal on paper 33.7 x 26 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1943 A Widow
oil on canvas 91.4 x 73 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1944 Bearded Man Wearing Spectacles
lithograph 37.8 x 28.9 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1944 Happy Camp
oil on canvas 130 x 47 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1944 Horseback Riding
lithograph 33.7 x 25.1 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1944 House in the Forest
lithograph 32.4 x 25.7 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1946 Apartment Houses, Paris
oil, sand and charcoal on canvas 114 x 145.7 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1946 Inhabited Landscape
lithograph 21.7 x 33.5 cm
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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