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Title
Le
Metafisyx
.
Creator
Dubuffet, Jean (French painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1901-1985)
Date
1950
Cultural Context
French
European
Western European
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Mixed media
Avant-garde
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Composite views
Profiles (figures)
Front views
Women
Nudes (representations)
Nudity
Beauty
Aesthetics
Subject
Paintings
Mixed media
Women
Nudes
Beauty
Aesthetics
Body image
Human body
Body parts
Description
Corps
de
Dames
series
,
1950
; "
Child
art
,
which
had been a
major
source
of
interest
for
early
twentieth-century
modernists
such
as
Joan
Miró
or
Paul
Klee
, was a
source
here. This was
annexed
to an
adult
desire
to
recover
primordial
fantasies
about
the
nature
of the
body.
"
(Caption
,
p.21)
; "
Ideas
of a
counter-aesthetic
sphere
came
to be
consolidated
in
France
by the
critic
Michel
Tapié
,
who
developed
the
notion
of
un
art
autre
whilst
Dubuffet
himself
formed
a
collection
of
Art
Brut
(raw
art
,
largely
produced
by
social
outsiders
and the
insane)
which
was
shown
at
[René
]
Drouin's
gallery
between
1947
and
1950
.
Anti-aesthetic
principles
inform
Dubuffet's
Corps
de
Dames
series
of
1950
.
Turning
to the
female
nude
because
of its
links
with
'a
very
specious
notion
of
beauty
(inherited
from the
Greeks
and
cultivated
by the
magazine
covers)'
,
Dubuffet
saw
the
celebration
of a
massively
ravaged
and
distorted
body
image
,
splayed
out
like
a
map
to the
picture's
limits
, as
part
of an
'enterprise
for the
rehabilitation
of
scorned
values.'
However
, his
obsessive
investigation
of the
innards
of his
subjects
also has a
charged
psychological
atmosphere
,
evoking
children's
fantasies
of
bodily
investigation
and
possibly
infantile
urges
towards
the
destruction
of the
insides
of the
maternal
body
, as
discussed
by the
British
psychoanalyst
Melanie
Klein
in the
1930s.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.19)
Material
Paint
Mixed media
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Work Type
Mixed media
Paintings
Repository
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.20, fig.9)
Rights
Photo Jacques Faujour © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-29.jpg
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