Jean Dubuffet
Fête villageoise, November 5, 1976, acrylic and collage on paper mounted on canvas, 8' 2" x 10' 7-3/4" (248.9 cm x 324.5 cm)
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Jean Dubuffet rejected academic ideas of refinement and championed what he called Art Brut—work made outside official culture. His own paintings use thick matter, graffiti-like marks, crude figures and later the interlocking red, blue, black and white forms of the Hourloupe cycle.
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