La Vie de famille, 1936 (World Gallery)
Dubuffet was influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book Artistry of the Mentally III to create the term "Art Brut" which meant raw art and usually referring to an outsider art. "The term was produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children. He gathered his own collection of such art, including artists such as Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli. The collection is now housed at the Musée de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dubuffet tried to create an art as free from intellectual concerns as Art Brut, and his work often appears primitive and child-like. Many of Dubuffet's works are painted in oil paint using an impasto thickened by materials such as sand, tar and straw, giving the work an unusually textured surface. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colours red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl paint" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet)
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