Painted fabric and polyester resin costume; 1972. Created for Coucou Bazar, 1973, New York.
Dubuffet, a painter, from the time of the postwar exhibition in 1946 rejected all past culture; he is especially disdainful of accepted ideas of beauty or even of technical control. The study of graffiti, children's art, and the art of the insane led him to create crude, flattened, frontal forms, ofte grossly sexual, molded out of thick compounds of viscous material. An exhibition of Dubuffets's collection of mostrosoties, produced by non-artists in 1949, was entitled "Art Brut"; all his sources have ben ostensibly from outside the cultural establishment, without reference to traditional cocepts of taste and form.