Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor who was born in Le Havre,  France on July 31, 1901. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet). Throughout Dubuffet's life he painted on and off for many years. Dubuffet moved to paris at age 17 (in 1918) to study painting at academie Julian but only stayed there for a short six months before leaving to study independently. Dubuffet gave up painting for six years (1924) and began selling wine for his fathers business, then in the 1930's made a large series of portraits in which he emphasized the vogues in art history but stopped painting once again shortly after.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet). Dubuffet began painting for good in 1942 when he began to paint figures of nude women in an impersonal and primitive way using strong colors. Dubuffet also enjoys painting people in everyday ordinary life.