DUBUFFET - OR THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

Dubuffet remained for a long time paralyzed by the idea that art should imitate art. It was the authors of Art Brut, discovered in the 1940s, who hired him to no longer accept lessons from anyone, and especially not from works of Art Brut. Not that Dubuffet walled himself up in autism. Let's say that he found his inspiration found in the intimacy of materials, earth, carbon dioxide or even radioactivity, rather than in the paintings of Van Gogh or Picasso. For For this reason, we could not analyze this work according to the procedures usual in the history of art, that is to say by reference to tradition and to the artistic context. It was necessary to operate transversally to the discipline properly aesthetic.