1946, Jean Dubuffet, Michel Tapie soleil -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In an ever more experimental creative process, Dubuffet introduces new materials into his "high pastes", like the gravel and oakum we find here.
The dominance of the pictorial matter is manifest in the series of Portraits with extracted Likeness, with Likeness cooked and confected in the Memory. with Likeness exploded in the Memory, exhibited in 1947 at the Galerie René Drouin. Jean Dubuffet represents the critic Michel Tapié with an oversized head, as in children's drawings. The long nose is nevertheless reminiscent of the face of the critic, of whom the artist would make more than twenty portraits.
1946, Jean Dubuffet, Michel Tapie soleil -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: In an ever more experimental creative process, Dubuffet introduces new materials into his "high pastes", like the gravel and oakum we find here.
The dominance of the pictorial matter is manifest in the series of Portraits with extracted Likeness, with Likeness cooked and confected in the Memory. with Likeness exploded in the Memory, exhibited in 1947 at the Galerie René Drouin. Jean Dubuffet represents the critic Michel Tapié with an oversized head, as in children's drawings. The long nose is nevertheless reminiscent of the face of the critic, of whom the artist would make more than twenty portraits.