With his return to painting, Dubuffet adopted an energetic new language to
approach everyday subject matter.
Not exact matches
The artist's own printmaking also takes
everyday objects as
subject matter and combines boldly defined outline with vivid colouring, an
approach which the artist also applies to his own self - image: the defined, linear drawing style combined with complete freedom and openness in the choice of colours.
Passing paintings of slave ships, boy scouts and girl scouts, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and anonymous African American artists, he discussed his
approach to representation, the ways in which he elevates scenes of
everyday life, and how in charting American history, he avoids sensational images by pursuing more thoughtful depictions of his
subjects.
Central to their respective
approaches is an engagement with the
everyday and the commonplace, evidenced in their choices of materials and
subject matter.
These photographs, with their informal
approach to
everyday subjects, reveal his free spirit and love of life, rather than a concern for photographic technique and craft, and often capture a sense of movement.
Tuymans» takes his
subjects from major historical events and
everyday objects, though his
approach to all images is analytical.
She
approaches subjects such as the aesthetics of money, information, food and garbage in various techniques and ways that can relate with her interest in a growing and shared experimentation of the
everyday.