Jean Dubuffet and the magicians. Singular Expressions 1945 - 2000
The exhibition will feature over fifty works by artists represented in the museum's collection.
Read more
Show less
For this third exhibition at the Musée du Niel, we have chosen Jean Dubuffet and the Magicians. Jean Dubuffet's artistic contribution and impact at the end of the Second World War were considerable. He "invented" art brut, and gave this hitherto ignored or neglected form of singular expression a wide-ranging exhibition for the first time. At a time when abstraction was establishing its mastery over painting in France, at a time when figurative art was resisting and asserting its traditional...