Jean Dubuffet

French | 1901 - 1985

Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor with an idealistic approach to aesthetics. He 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. Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children. Dubuffet sought to create an art as free from intellectual concerns as Art Brut, and his work often appears primitive and child-like. The Foundation Jean Dubuffet collects and exhibits his work. The Dubuffet Foundation is represented by Pace Gallery, New York.