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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (July 31, 1901 in Le
Havre - May 12, 1985 in Paris) was one of the most
famous France|French painters and sculptors of the
second half of the 20th century.



==Biography==
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 approached the
surrealism|surrealist group in 1948, then the
Pataphysics|College of Pataphysique in 1954.

Influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book Artistry of
the Mentally Ill, Dubuffet coined the term Art
Brut for art produced by non-professionals working
outside aesthetic norms, such as art by mental
patients, prisoners, and children. He amassed his
own collection of such art, including artists such
as Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wolfli. Dubuffet
sought to create an art as free from intellectual
concerns as Art Brut, and his work often appears
primitive and child-like.

Many of Dubuffet's works are painted in oil paint
using an impasto thickened by materials such as
sand, tar and straw, 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
sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he
then painted with vinyl paint.

==Selected bibliography==
===Catalogue Raisonné===
*Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule
I-XXXVIII, Pauvert: Paris, 1965-1991
*Webel, Sophie, L’Œuvre gravé et les livres
illustrés par Jean Dubuffet. Catalogue raisonné.
Lebon: Paris 1991
===Writings===
*Jean Dubuffet, Prospectus et tous écrits
suivants, Tome I, II, Paris 1967; Tome III, IV,
Gallimard: Paris 1995
*Jean Dubuffet,  Asphyxiating Culture and other
Writings. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows,
1986
ISBN 0941423093
===Principal studies===
*Michel Ragon, Dubuffet, New York: Grove Press,
1959
*Peter Selz, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, New York:
The Museum of Modern Art, 1962
*Max Loreau, Jean Dubuffet, délits déportements
lieux de haut jeu, Paris: Weber, 1971
*Andreas Franzke, Jean Dubuffet, Basel: Beyeler,
1976
*Andreas Franzke, Jean Dubuffet, New York: Harry
N. Abrams 1981
*Michel Thévoz, Jean Dubuffet, Genf: Albert
Skira, 1986
*Mildred Glimcher, Jean Dubuffet: Towards an
Alternative Reality. New York: Pace Gallery
1987
ISBN 0896597822
*Mechthild Haas, Jean Dubuffet, Berlin: Reimer,
1997
*Jean Dubuffet, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou,
2001
ISBN 2-84426-093-4
*Laurent Danchin, Jean Dubuffet, New York: Vilo
International, 2001
ISBN 2879392403
*Jean Dubuffet: Trace of an Adventure, ed. by
Agnes Husslein-Arco, Munich: Prestel,
2003
ISBN 3791329987
*Michael Krajewski, Jean Dubuffet. Studien zu
seinem Fruehwerk und zur Vorgeschichte des Art
brut, Osnabrueck: Der andere Verlag, 2004
ISBN
3-89959-168-2


commonscat|Jean Dubuffet
==External links==
*http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/index_ang.htm
The Dubuffet Foundation
*http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroup
id=999999961&artistid=1035&page=1 Dubuffet at the
Tate Gallery
*http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p
_id=55 Dubuffet at Brain-Juice
*http://www.ubu.com/sound/dubuffet.html Music By
Dubuffet