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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) was active/lived in France.  Jean Dubuffet is known for Modernist painting, collage, drawing.

Like Gauguin, Dubuffet started out as an unlikely candidate to be anything at all in the art world. He was born in Le Havre, France in 1901; his father was a prosperous Le Havre wine merchant. Dubuffet tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Leger. 

He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." One day before World War II he started to paint again.  His wife left him, and the brother-in-law, too.  For the next few years, he worked the  back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine.  In 1944 he got his first Paris show.   

His work took on a special excitement. His philosophy amounted to a sweeping rejection of Europe's cherished art traditions. He became the leader of the Art Brut (raw a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13520 characters.]  Artist bio

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