PAINTING OF YOUR CHOICE.

Painting of Your Choice



Painting of Your Choice

Introduction

Jean Dubuffet's work occupies a foremost place in the artistic landscape of the second half of the century. This is the first paradox of an artist who refused the dominant Western culture, schools, currents, the techniques taught, but has made efforts to give the art brut art status and focused to value the materiality of the artistic work, experimenting with various techniques.

Dubuffet rejected the categories of language, the influence of the syntax, but his correspondence revealed the extent of his reading and known to have hesitated between two activities, write or paint, without ever giving up writing (John Paulhan also strongly encouraged the writer in him). Last paradox, his refusal to the accumulation of knowledge did not stop to use the mental activity of the spectator, "art is for the spirit and not the eyes," he writes. To understand the complexity of his work, he must also reassess the relationship of this with Art Brut and the importance that writing for the artist.

The year of initiation

The artistic vocation of Jean Dubuffet was born in Havre in 1901 into a family of vintners, begins at the immediate postwar period. Arriving in Paris in 1918, it swiftly from the teaching of the Academy Julian as events unfold dada, nihilistic and provocative. Limbour with George, his childhood friend, he follows the bohemian literary and artistic Montmartre (Suzanne Valadon, Elie Lascaux, Max Jacob), has a passion for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and frequent, in 1922, the workshop André Masson Street Blomet, which found Michel Leiris, Antonin Artaud and Max Jacob. His prehistoric paintings then influenced by André Masson, and Fernand Leger borrows its design of an art rooted in everyday life, ordinary and popular. The word focus of candling, means looking carefully, it means the point of aim, the place where you want the blow. What else is there to see in the landscape? The undifferentiated, the unspeakable, the invisible? The painter, however, does not separate from reality; He only wants to make fun of the pretensions of the table to represent something.

How is it put together?

The author by using oil painting completes this picture. The oil painting is a painting technique that uses a mixture of pigments and of oil drying (the binder or vehicle), to obtain a paste more or less thick and oily. This paste applied with brushes on a base of primed canvas mounted on a frame or mounted on a rigid panel. Other materials also used such as cardboard or wood. Several types of solvents and painting mediums are used to facilitate its application, or changing its texture.

Appeared in the late Middle Ages, in the West, the Flemish primitives to generalize its use, which supersedes the technique of tempera. Throughout the ages, the technique of oil painting will undergo changes related to technological and aesthetic developments. In a technique mainly based on the superimposition of glazes, as practiced by the Flemish and Florentine, the oil painting technique is evolving towards ...