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Jean Dubuffet: Pioneer of Art Brut – A Student's Guide
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Jean Dubuffet – Biography and Facts
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Card 1
Question: When and where was Jean Dubuffet born?
Answer: He was born on July 31, 1901, in Le Havre, France.
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Question: When and where did Jean Dubuffet die?
Answer: He died on May 12, 1985, in Paris, France.
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Question: What kind of family did Dubuffet come from, and what was their profession?
Answer: He came from a family of wine merchants.
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Question: What brief art education did Dubuffet pursue in Paris?
Answer: He briefly studied at the Académie Julian but left after six months.
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Question: At what age and under what circumstances did Dubuffet decide to fully dedicate himself to art?
Answer: At the age of 41, in the midst of World War II, he decided to become a professional artist.
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Question: What style or approach to art did Dubuffet aim to promote?
Answer: He wanted to create art that broke the conventions of good taste and showed that creativity could flourish in unexpected places; he emphasized experim
Card 7
Question: Which photographer captured Dubuffet in his Paris studio in 1951, and what impression does the photograph convey?
Answer: Photographer Robert Doisneau; the image depicts Dubuffet amidst chaotic materials, like a chef among his utensils or an amateur scientist in a lab, em
Card 8
Question: Which Hungarian émigré and his graffiti photographs did Dubuffet admire as inspiration?
Answer: He admired the graffiti photographs by Hungarian émigré Brassaï, published in Minotaure magazine in 1933.
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Question: How did Dubuffet perceive walls and graffiti, according to his series of lithographs "Walls"?
Answer: He viewed walls as witnesses to the turbulence of recent years; the inscriptions on them offer a tender impression of the lives that left their mark.
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Question: What was Dubuffet's relationship with children's drawings, and how was this reflected in his landscapes?
Answer: He was interested in the raw energy of children's drawings; his paintings, such as "Large Black Landscape," possess a childlike and naive character, w