Word: brut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever his politics...
Champagne: Beaulieu, Brut...
...brut (raw art), Dubuffet says: "I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values." To break down the "unhealthy convention" of differentiating ugliness from beauty, he has turned out mudpie paintings covered with coarse scratchings and reduced the traditional ideal of feminine beauty to scarifying yet powerful grotesques. In other series, called Texturologies and Topographies, he has exalted the artistic possibilities of ordinary dirt. His latest works, titled L'Hourloupes (opposite)-probably a pun on entourlouper, "to deceive, to misguide"-dip even further into the mad world to find images...
...began making art while detained as an Italian army doctor in a U.S. prisoner-of-war camp. He stood eminently in line for his medal, since he had won minor prizes at the Carnegie International in 1958 and the Venice Biennale in 1960. One of the many European art brut abstractionists who explored the beauties of raw texture after World War II, Burri makes a sort of mad Braille with collages of blistered burlap (called sacco), charred wood (combustioni), and lately, slashed and melted sheets of colored plastic. How to make an esthetic of ugliness is his prime concern...
...sophisticated French pursuit of paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...