Jean Dubuffet’s Happy Landscape: avoiding traditional standards of beauty | Artworks Explained

Rectangular shapes pile up in a narrow vertical format, with people, houses, animals and trees embedded in them. At the upper edge a small piece of sky. A section of a rural scene is depicted; it could continue endlessly to the sides and downwards. The artist has called the picture “Campagne heureuse”, “Happy Country”.
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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter, sculptor, collage and action artist and is one of the most prominent exponents of post-war French art. Dubuffet was also an influential art writer; for example, he coined the term Art brut.

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