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Art in Obscurity

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019 In 1945, the French painter Jean Dubuffet discovered Switzerland as fertile ground for his collection and research: in everyday life as well as in hospitals, prisons and psychiatric clinics he encountered people who created gestural paintings, assemblages and sensitive drawings. He used the term “art brut” (French for raw or rough art) to describe these intuitively…