Woman Trying a Hat, 1943 (http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/jean-dubuffet.html)
In 1945 Dubuffet recognized meaningful art that expressed directly and purely the depth of a person after attending a show in Paris of Jean Fautrier's paintings. Fautrier used thick oil paint to create his art work and so Dubuffet began to use this same technique, but mixed with sand and gravel, so that he could model the paint as a skin of the painting. "This resulted in the series 'Hautes Pâtes', he exhibited in 1946 at the Galérie René Drouin. After 1946 he started a series of portraits, with as 'model' partly his own friends Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Jean Paulhan and Pierre Matisse. He painted these portraits in the same thick materials, and deliberately anti-psychological and anti-personal, as Dubuffet expressed himself. A few years later he approached the surrealist group in 1948, then the College of Pataphysique in 1954. He was befriended with the French playwright, actor and theater director Antonin Artaud, he admired and supported the writer Celine and was strongly connected with the artistic circle around the surrealist André Masson. In 1944 Dubuffet started an important relation with the resistance-fighter and French writer, publisher, Jean Paulhan who was also strongly fighting against 'intellectual terrorism', as he called it" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet)
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