Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Dubuffet, Jean |
Title |
BALLERINABULLE (BALLERINA BUBBLES) |
Date |
1962-1963 |
Medium |
lithograph, 92/116 |
Culture |
French |
Object ID |
1996.175 |
Collection |
Modern Art (1900-1970) |
Object Name |
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Credit line |
Gift of Robert Walmer |
Didactic Information |
Jean Dubuffet is associated with Art Brut, which draws upon the primitive, the crude, and the raw, and shows a preoccupation with savagery, passion, and violence. His interests also include the art of children and of the mentally ill. Dubuffet paints portraits and figurative scenes, as well as pure abstraction, in which he builds up rough layers of paint, mixed with elements like tar, straw, or sand. In his lithography, he ventures into the world of non-representation, focusing solely on the idea of texture without his usual impasto. In Ballerinabulle (Ballerina Bubbles), Mirivis des Naturgies, and Untitled, from 1962-63, Dubuffet creates stark and textural black and white surfaces that depict the physical elements of nature, such as craters on the surface of the moon, the bark of a tree, or an aerial view of the desert. |