The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold. - Jean Dubuffet

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The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.

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About Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet (July 31, 1901 – May 12, 1985) was one of the French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut for the art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by children, mental patients, prisoners. The material in Art Brut is essential. Dubuffet's art is representational, in which he strives for the general and the popular meaning.

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Pen Names: Jan du qu J. Dubufe Louis-Léon Bendy
Alternative Names: Louis-Léon Forget Jandu Bufe Jean-Philippe-Arthur Dubuffet Louis-Leon Forget Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet

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What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.

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