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The Cow With The Subtile Nose
''The Cow with a Subtile Nose'' is an oil and enamel painting on canvas by French painter Jean Dubuffet, created in 1954. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. History Starting in July 1954 Dubuffet often went to Durtol, a small village near Clermont-Ferrand, where his wife lived for health reasons. He set up a workshop there and worked on rural scenes, as he had in 1943–1944. He said: "I took great pleasure in looking at the cows for a long time as I had done in the past and then drawing them from memory, or sometimes even, but much more exceptionally, from life." During this period he created a series of paintings of cows, including ''The Cow with a Subtile Nose''. Also from July 1954, Dubuffet experimented with a new painting technique: lacquered paint. This very fluid, quick-drying industrial paint, called "four-hour enamel", when drying gives a network of cracks when used in combination with oil paint. Dubuffet then completed the painting with a small br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (; 31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French Painting, painter and sculpture, sculptor of the School of Paris, École de Paris (School of Paris). His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Outsider art#Jean Dubuffet and art brut, art brut, and for the collection of works—''Collection de l'art brut''—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime. Early life Dubuffet was born in Le Havre to a family of wholesale wine merchants who were part of the wealthy bourgeoisie. His childhood friends included the writers Raymond Queneau and Georges Limbour. He moved to Paris in 1918 to study painting at the Académie Julian, becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |