User:Pastrynami/Outsider art

Lead
Including André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Jean Dubuffet and art brut
Dubuffet’s championing of Art Brut would not last long. Scholars argue Dubuffet’s distaste for the mainstream art world helped ensure that art brut and the Compagnie de l'Art Brut would not survive on a commercial basis; Dubuffet would kill art brut as he defined it in his quest for its authenticity. Three years after the Compagnie de l'Art Brut was formed, Dubuffet dissolved it; caving to form the more conventional Collection de l'art brut afterwards.

Cultural Context
And as with analysis of these other art movements, recent discourse indicates art brut is innately tied to primitivism due to its similarity in its borrowing of, personal ‘de-patriation’, and exoticization of familiar, yet alien forms.

Terminology
Coined by Jean Dubuffet, the term translated literally from French means "raw art". [2][3] 'Raw' in essence that it has not been through the academic 'cooking' process: i.e. the world of art schools, galleries, and museums. Dubuffet’s original definition pertains strictly to the ‘raw art’ created by the autodidactic and shunned fringes of society. [2][3]