Saturday 28 January 2012

Jean Dubuffet + Olympia example

French avant-garde painter, born in Le Havre (1901-1985).His paintings have developed a distinctive style of simple, primitive images in a heavily encrusted canvas.This style helped Dubuffet gain a worldwide reputation. Fascinated by the art of children and the insane, for which he coined the term art brut ("raw art"), he emulated its crude, violent energy in his own work. Critics soon applied the term art brut to Dubuffet's paintings, rather than to their stylistic source as he had intended. This artist relates to Pierre Hardy because of his use of shapes and lines. It also relates to the Olympia theme as I intend to laser cut out the pizzle pieces but for some of the pieces to be shaped in Olympia style shapes