Dubuffet

[ doo-buh-fey, dyoo-; French dy-by-fe ]

noun

1. Jean [zhah, n], 1901–85, French painter.

Dubuffet

/ dybyfɛ /

noun

1. DubuffetJean19011985MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1901–85, French painter, inspired by graffiti and the untrained art of children and psychotics

Example Sentences

Her work demonstrates how artists absorbed a dizzying array of influences after World War II. For Sadr, this meant the earthy approach of European Informel painters like Alberto Burri and Jean Dubuffet, but also the systemic geometries of Islamic architecture — and even the exaggerated, Pop brushstrokes of Roy Lichtenstein.

From New York Times

Their first large acquisition was a trio of paintings — by Picasso, Dubuffet and Léger — that Mr. Glimcher had shown her, all leaning against a wall in his office.

From New York Times

But after moving to Paris in 1948, and falling in with artists like André Breton and Jean Dubuffet, he became curator of the influential Collection de l’Art Brut.

From New York Times

With sunglasses perched on his forehead, a gold chain around his neck and purple sneakers on his feet, Taylor makes references to Rashid Johnson and Rodin; Dubuffet and Diebenkorn.

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Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet’s taxonomy of “raw art,” from which the idea of the outsider stems, defined a narrower idea — art out of bounds of mainstream culture, made by prisoners, patients of psychiatric centers and others existing on society’s margins and considered impolite by its center.

From New York Times