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Art Brut


Art Brut
[Fr.: ‘raw art’]. Term used from the mid-1940s to designate a type of art outside the fine art tradition. The commonest English-language equivalent for art brut is ‘Outsider art’. In North America, the same phenomenon tends to attract the label ‘Grass-roots art’. The French term was coined by Jean Dubuffet, who posited an inventive, non-conformist art that should be perfectly brut, unprocessed and spontaneous, and emphatically distinct from what he saw as the derivative stereotypes ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Art Brut — 5 artists:

Aloïse
Gaston Chaissac
Jean Dubuffet

Augustin Lesage
Robert Tatin

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