Paintings: Oil, sand, tar and straw; Sculptures: polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl pain
Method:
Style:
Art Brut , Outsider, POP
Fine Art Profession(s):
Painter Sculptor
Biography
Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre. In 1918 he went to Paris where he gave up his course in painting at the Acadamie Julian after six months and started working on his own. He knew the painters Dufy and Leger and both had some influence on his otherwise 'self-taught' approach to art. By 1924 he had given up painting entirely and instead concentrated on running a wine business. In 1933 he started painting again, producing mainly puppets and masks, but in 1937 this creativity ended once again. It was only in 1942 that he finally devoted himself to painting and to the direction that he has continued since.
