Le Metafisyx.
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Title |
Le Metafisyx. |
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Creator |
Dubuffet, Jean (French painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1901-1985) |
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Date |
1950 |
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Cultural Context |
French
European
Western European |
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Style/Period |
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist |
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Subject |
Women
Nudes
Beauty
Aesthetics
Body image
Human body |
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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) |
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Material |
Paint
Mixed media |
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Technique |
Painting (image-making) |
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Work Type |
Mixed media
Paintings |
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Repository |
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.20, fig.9) |
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Rights |
Photo Jacques Faujour © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-29.jpg |
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