Figure timeline
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art brut movement, and for the collection of works—Collection de l…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · French painter and sculptor (1901–1985) · painter · sculptor · visual artist · writer · designer · graphic artist · art theorist · printmaker · plastic artist · architectural drafter · also Jean Dubuffet, Louis-Léon Forget, Jandu Bufe, Jean-Philippe-Arthur Dubuffet, Louis-Leon Forget, Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
Born 31 July 1901 · Died 12 May 1985 · Q170076
28 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
not the mere gratification of a handful of specialists, but rather the man in the street when he comes home from work....it is the man in the street whom I feel closest to, with whom I want to make friends and enter into confidence, and he is the one I want to please and enchant by means of my work.
[f]rom a distance, Dubuffet seems the most original painter to have come out of the School of Paris since Miro...
76%WikipediaSource
“not the mere gratification of a handful of specialists, but rather the man in the street when he comes home from work....it is the man in the street whom I feel closest to, with whom I want to make friends and enter into confidence, and he is the one I want to please and enchant by means of my work.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“[f]rom a distance, Dubuffet seems the most original painter to have come out of the School of Paris since Miro...”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The New York Times: Jean Dubuffet
Forbes: See Inside Closerie Falbala, Artist Jean Dubuffet’s Love Letter To ‘Anti Taste’
Artnet: Shop the Show: A Paris Exhibition Highlights the Varied Output of Art Brut Pioneer Jean Dubuffet on the 120th Anniversary of His Birth
Hyperallergic: Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
The Independent: Jean Dubuffet – Brutal Beauty review: One of the exhibitions of the year
Forbes: A Jean Dubuffet Retrospective Will Open In London
The Jakarta Post: Jean Dubuffet retrospective opening in Venice for the city's art biennale
The Art Newspaper: First exhibition on Jean Dubuffet’s fascination with cities to open this summer
Artnet: Words of Advice For Artists From Jean Dubuffet, Advocate for Art Brut, on His Birthday
Hyperallergic: Jean Dubuffet's Lasting Legacy
Died 1985-05-12.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“l’Art Brut jest stowarzyszeniem przyjaciół. (…) Kolekcja, zebrana po długich latach cierpliwych poszukiwań liczy obecnie około dwóch tysięcy prac ponad dwustu autorów, z których połowa uznawana jest przez lekarzy za umysłowo chorych.”
Dubuffet collaborated with American composer and musician Jasun Martz to create the record album artwork for Martz's avant-garde symphony entitled The Pillory
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dubuffet created Jardin d'émail, a very large outdoor painted sculpture designed for the Kröller-Müller Museum
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ensued an acquaintance between him and the French Outsider Art artist Jacques Soisson
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
At Ossorio's urging, his young friend Joseph Glasco left New York for Paris to meet Dubuffet
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Then the College of Pataphysique in 1954
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dubuffet had his first solo exhibition in America, in the same gallery as the Matisse exhibition
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dubuffet attended and was strongly impressed by a show in Paris of Jean Fautrier's paintings in which he recognized meaningful art which expressed directly and purely the depth of a person
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Started an important relationship with the resistance-fighter and French writer and publisher Jean Paulhan who was also strongly fighting against "intellectual terrorism", as he called it
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The writer George Limbour, a friend of Dubuffet from childhood, took Jean Paulhan to the artist's studio
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dubuffet decided to devote himself again to art
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When he made a large series of portraits in which he emphasized the vogues in art history
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Married for the first time and went on to start a small wine business in Paris
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
To study painting at the Académie Julian, becoming close friends with the artists Juan Gris, André Masson, and Fernand Léger
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1901-07-31.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections