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Name: Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
Birth Date: July 31, 1901
Death Date: 1985
Place of Birth: Le Havre, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist, painter

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Biography of Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
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The French painter Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (1901-1985) explored the possibilities of materials and surfaces in works that depict commonplace subjects. Throughout his career he reacted against conventional ideas of beauty and remained apart from...


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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet ( July 31 , 1901 - May 12 , 1985 ) was one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Unsourced Painting manipulates materials that are themselves living substances,which...


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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (July 31, 1901 - May 12, 1985) was one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th...


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Artforum International
Brut force. (artist Jean Dubuffet)
09/01/1996: 1,892 words, approx. 6 pages
'Jean Dubuffet's Dubuffets' is an exhibition which consists of the paintings, sculptures, gouaches and drawings made by artist Jean Dubuffet from 1942 to 1966. Dubuffet's works are characterized as full of creative invention, with supreme indifference to hierarchies and genres. Dubuffet is known to...
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Artforum International
Jean Dubuffet.
09/01/2001: 139 words, approx. 1 pages
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU The French are at their best when honoring their own. The grand centenary retrospective for Dubuffet promises to be definitive, including more than 280 paintings and 100 drawings chosen by Daniel Abadie of the Jeu de Paume and Sophie...
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The New York Observer
Anonymous, Mythic Heads Sculpture Playing for Big Stakes
3/27/2005: 887 words, approx. 3 pages
Looking at the recent sculptures of Philip Pavia-an array of terra-cotta heads on display at the OK Harris Gallery-I was reminded of recent and current exhibitions devoted to Georg Baselitz's immense wood carvings and the paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Mr. Pavia doesn't necessarily...
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The New York Observer
The New York School\'d5s Left Bank Campus
7/31/2007: 850 words, approx. 3 pages
The 1950’s were certainly not the best of times for a young artist to head to Paris. Europe was recovering from the devastation of the Second World War. From the standpoint of art, the vaunted School of Paris was, if not spent, then close to...
 


 

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