Sentences with phrase «french outsider artist»

1923 aka Heaven + 1925 aka Hell is a two - channel video installation inspired by two paintings from the French outsider artist Augustin Lesage, both called A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World.

Abdelkader Rifi was a French Outsider artist born in 1920.

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Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

DUBUFFET DRAWINGS, 1935 - 1962 The first museum retrospective of drawings by Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85), the French artist who was inspired by graffiti, children's art and what has come to be called Outsider Art — in his words, Art Brut.

Chan's work presents the unlikely mash - up of the famously reclusive Chicago «outsider» artist and the nineteenth - century French social theorist, set to a sound track of Jay - Z and Bach.

By Betty Ann Brown French artist Jean Dubuffet coined the term art brut (usually translated into English as «Outsider Art») to refer to work «created by people outside the professional art world... from their own depths and not from the stereotypes of Classical or fashionable art.»

Other modern and contemporary styles represented include: the Ash Can school of American Realism, Mexican Modernism, Outsider Art (in French Art Brut), as well as works by African American artists.

This type of iconoclastic creativity was first collected by the French artist Jean Dubuffet whose collection of Outsider Art (Collection of Art Brut) hangs in Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) Avant - garde French naif artist, collector of Art Brut (Outsider Art), known for his sculptures constructed from junk materials.

Presenting early works in painting and sculpture by renowned French artist Jean Dubuffet, this compelling exhibition (organized by art historian Mark Rosenthal) focuses on the artist's development of his signature Art Brut style, which was inspired by children's drawings and the art of the mentally ill (what we now call Outsider

The French artist Jean Dubuffet was, perhaps, the most active proponent of Art Brut, building up a significant collection of Outsider Art.

«More than ever contemporary collectors are buying outsider art,» he posited, naming the «blue chip» artists as Darger, Martin Ramirez, Grandma Moses, and James Castle, adding Augustin Lesage, a French artist from the late 1920s, a work of whose sold for $ 519,238 last year at auction, according to Artnet.