"Dubuffet was launched to success with a series of exhibitions that
opposed the prevailing mood of post-war Paris and consequently sparked
enormous scandal. While the public looked for a redemptive art and a
restoration of old values, Dubuffet confronted them with childlike
images that satirized the conventional genres of high art. And while the
public looked for beauty, he gave them pictures with coarse textures
and drab colors, which critics likened to dirt and excrement.
The emphasis on texture and materiality in Dubuffet's paintings might
be read as an insistence on the real. In the aftermath of the war, it
represented an appeal to acknowledge humanity's failings and begin again
from the ground - literally the soil - up.
Dubuffet's Hourloupe style developed from a chance doodle while
he was on the telephone. The basis of it was a tangle of clean black
lines that forms cells, which are sometimes filled with unmixed color.
He believed the style evoked the manner in which objects appear in the
mind. This contrast between physical and mental representation later
encouraged him to use the approach to create sculpture"
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-dubuffet-jean.htm
I kind of like these sculptures, I like how textured they look, and the way the different shapes make up the different parts. I'm pretty sure he used automatic drawing to get the designs for these. I think it's very clever the way he gets the sculptures to look really 3D using colour and black lines despite the flat planes they are made from. Also, despite the outlines, everything seems to flow into each other, for example the pieces don't look separate, like they are just stuck together.
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