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Interesting sculpture of the ART BRUT current bearing the signature FILIPPO
(possible attribution to FILIPPO BENTIVEGNA) undisputed protagonist of the ART BRUT artistic current
l 45 cm x h 30cm x l 25 cm
The concept of Art brut (in Italian, literally, Raw Art, but also translated as "spontaneous art") was invented in 1945 by the French painter Jean Dubuffet. to indicate the artistic productions created by non-professionals or residents of psychiatric hospitals who operate outside conventional aesthetic norms (self-taught, psychotics, prisoners, people completely ignorant of artistic culture). In this way, he intended to define a spontaneous art, without cultural pretensions and without any reflection.
According to Dubuffet, raw art must:
«naître du matériau [...] se nourrir des inscriptions, des tracés instinctifs»
(arise from the material [...] feed on inscriptions, instinctive arrangements)."
Here is Jean Dubuffet's definition: Raw art designates "works carried out by people free from artistic culture, in which mimicry, contrary to what happens in intellectuals, has little or no part, so that their authors draw everything (topics, choice of materials, implementation, means of transposition, rhythm, writing methods, etc.) from their depths and not stereotypes of classical or fashionable art. Art Brut, according to its proponents, must be distinguished from popular art, naïf art, and children's drawings.
And again: "Those works created from solitude and pure and authentic creative impulses - where concerns of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere - are, precisely because of this, more precious than the productions of professionals[1].
The English synonym for Art Brut is Outsider Art, a term coined in 1972 by the English art critic Roger Cardinal.
While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term Outsider Art is often applied more broadly, to include the self-taught or creators of Naive Art who have never become institutionalized. Generally, those identified as Outsider Art have little or no contact with the institutions of the traditional art world; in many cases, their work is only discovered after their death. Many works of Art Brut or Outsider Art illustrate extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.
After the Compagnia dell'art brut[2] dissolved Dubuffet in 1975, he donated the entire collection to the city of Lausanne. «Kept in the Château de Beaulieu, formerly the residence of Madame de Staël, the Collection de l'art brut, a museum with public status and owned by the municipality of the Swiss city, has since become an international point of reference for connoisseurs and scholars ».[3]
Leading exponents of Art Brut
Franco Bellucci
William Kurelek
Filippo Bentivegna
Ferdinand Cheval
Aloïse Corbaz
Henry Darger
Guerino Galzerano
Pietro Ghizzardi
Hans Krüsi
Romano Levi
Claudine Loquen
Tarcisio Merati
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Ataa Oko
Giovanni Battista Podestà
Eugenio Santoro
Oswald Tschirtner
Adolf Wölfli[4]
Carlo Zinelli
Marzio Lowe
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