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This 5 page report discusses French pop artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) and Italian painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916). Both of them chose to break with the traditional bonds of art and create works that were completely unique and which could be thought of as far outside the mainstream. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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demonstrate an energy that is uniquely 20th century and one that was unique in its ability to change the ways in which artistic vision was both expressed and understood. It
should be understood that the foundations and critical perspectives of great art throughout history can always serve as a means by which social theorists and historians are able to gain
some measure of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. In fact, the purpose of art, the creation of art, and the interpretation of art, has always and still
remains a process in which the interpreter fits into certain parameters as surely as the art work itself. Jean Dubuffet Art critic and commentator Brooks Adams claims that
Jean Dubuffets "... monumental black-and-white civic sculptures were the epitome of bland buoyancy, a kind of European Pop -- old master gold standard" (126). For example, in Calipette, there is
almost the feeling of Toulouse-Lautrec meets van Gogh in terms of the colors, thick texture, and movement (swirls and amorphous, puzzle-piece shapes). But there is also something more that "feels"
like graffiti or a child playing with oil paints. Perhaps the best explanation is: "Dubuffet emerged as a belated Surrealist, an extended Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a
yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936, one sees the work of an artist deciding what sort of painter he will be. While
virtually all of his work can be described as "bold," it is also possible to see that in his early days there is a certain measure of delicacy in a
pen and ink self-portrait and an almost Asian depiction of trees and the rooftops of a village (Dubuffet Foundation). But that period also demonstrates his playing with and exploring the
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