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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) 
Aliases: Jean-Philippe-Arthur Dubuffet
Professions: Painter; Sculptor
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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Biography: Dubuffet
(b Le Havre, 31 July 1901; d Paris, 12 May 1985). French painter, sculptor, printmaker, collector and writer. He was temperamentally opposed to authority and any suggestion of discipline and devised for himself a coherent, if rebellious, attitude towards the arts and culture. For all his maverick challenges to the values of the art world, Dubuffet’s career exemplified the way in which an avant-garde rebel could encounter notoriety, then fame and eventual reverence. His revolt against beauty and conformity has come to be seen as a symptomatic and appreciable influence in 20th-century culture.
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