Word: perugino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings are undeniably full of rules, conventions and accepted signs taken over from other art forms. The shorthand of child drawing-the wavy contours and schematic figures, the jammed and frontally flattened space-is as important to a Dubuffet like Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle as perspective space is in a Perugino. Dubuffet used these techniques deliberately to discover how ludicrous, violent or absurd an image a given set of conventions could carry within the context of modern painting. His drawing is stylish to the point of mannerism. Indeed his pictures depend on that context more than his admirers will allow. Madmen...