Jean Dubuffet
Scenography (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley, David Salle and Gerald Scarfe. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90), the avant garde Polish artist-designer and leader of the troupe “Cricot 2”, overlapped both categories. In 1988 the Linbury Prize for stage design was...
Outsider Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 14 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet: paintings, drawings and sculptures by schizophrenics; also works by uneducated, innocent artists such as hermits and mediums. Such beings, Cardinal maintained, existed outside normal society and evaded its cultural conditioning; consequently they remained free to create highly...
New Brutalism (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet, the paintings of Magda Cordell and the sculptures of Eduardo Paolozzi. See also Art Brut, Modern Movement. References and further readings > Reynor Banham. “Brutalism”. In G. Hatje’s Encyclopedia of modern architecture. (Thames & Hudson, 1963), pp. 61-4. > The New...
Matter Art / Matière Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tàpies, Manolo Millares, Modesta Cuixart, Enrico Donati and Alberto Burri foregrounded their materials by producing paintings with thick, textured surfaces resembling rinds or crusts. Some of these artists also introduced “foreign”, “unworthy” materials such as cinders,...
Graffiti & Graffiti Art (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 07 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet, David Hockney, Antoni Tàpies and Cy Twombly. A striking outbreak of popular Graffiti occurred in New York during the 1970s when subway trains were "bombed", i.e. covered with polychromatic "name writings" and "tags" (invented names, stylized signatures). Later on, much more...
Assemblage Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet to describe his own work in 1953. He preferred it to collage because he thought the latter should be restricted to cubism. Assemblage is a technique or method similar to montage— constructing a work from various bits and pieces— while Assemblage Art describes the end results of that...
Art Brut (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet who was an avid admirer and collector of all kinds of rough, unsophisticated visual expressions— graffiti, paintings and drawings by mental hospital patients, by children, outsiders, prisoners, primitives— in short by all those who created outside the context of the artworld in...
Un Art Autre / An Other Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
...Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Willem de Kooning, Georges Mathieu, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Wols— was organized with the same title. In his text Tapié also employed the term “l’art informel” and the literature is rather confused as to the usage of the two labels. Tapié claimed that post-’45 trends...
