Jean Dubuffet

The Exemplary Life of the Soil (Texturology LXIII), an oil painting (1958, by Jean Dubuffet) seems to me to achieve self-contextualisation.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dubuffet-the-exemplary-life-of-the-soil-texturology-lxiii-t00868

Additionally, I found the following quite general critical introduction to the work of Dubuffet, whose work strongly resonates : https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/research/MRCD_1_Dubuffet.pdf

I also came across this blog, which included a quote I loved, but have been unable to authenticate for proper citation. Regardless, the quote, attributed to Dubuffet, aptly describes my interest in his phenomenological approach to artmaking “'Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life. Shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?'“ :https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/6/24/dubuffet-waging-a-war-against-cultural-conditioning

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