Dimensions: image: 217 x 335 mm
Copyright: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Jean Dubuffet's "Inhabited Landscape" and it looks like a scratchy print. It feels like a dark, almost unsettling space filled with hidden figures. What do you see in this piece? Curator: The darkness and the figures could speak to Dubuffet's interest in art brut, challenging conventional artistic norms. How do these distorted, almost primal figures make you feel in relation to the landscape? Editor: A little uneasy, like I'm peering into something forbidden. It's like an act of defiance. Curator: Exactly. Dubuffet is questioning established power structures within the art world. I think we need to remember the social anxieties of the time. Editor: I never thought of it that way! I'm really glad I asked you about it. Curator: It's a pleasure to have opened a new perspective.
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The textures of these lithographs exemplify the technical inventiveness found in Jean Dubuffet’s work through which he tried to break the accepted boundaries of art. For some of his prints he used materials such as leaves, vegetables, salt, sugar and tapioca. These provide the basis for the dense surfaces that suggest the earth in which people and creatures swarm. Many of Dubuffet’s figures are quickly drawn and recall the urban graffiti that helped to inspire them. Gallery label, March 2007
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