Art brut

Art brut is a term coined by Jean Dubuffet for art made beyond established cultural conventions, especially by people outside professional art institutions.

Jean Dubuffet: Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and theorist who coined the term art brut. His collecting and writing established the term and its original boundaries.
Cultural conventions: Cultural conventions are shared norms and expectations that shape expression and social behavior. Dubuffet defined art brut in opposition to art shaped by accepted cultural norms.
Aloïse Corbaz: Aloïse Corbaz was a Swiss artist whose densely colored drawings became part of the art brut canon. Her elaborate works show the scale and imaginative coherence of art brut practice.
Folk art: Folk art is art rooted in the traditions and shared practices of a community. Art brut emphasizes individual distance from cultural traditions, while folk art depends on them.
Compagnie de l'Art Brut: Compagnie de l'Art Brut was an organization founded in Paris in 1948 to collect and study art brut. Dubuffet organized this group to give his new category a collection and research program.
Outsider art: Outsider art is a broad category for art made outside mainstream institutions, often by self-taught artists. The label overlaps with art brut but has a broader and less historically specific scope.
Adolf Wölfli: Adolf Wölfli was a Swiss artist who created an extensive body of drawings, writings, and musical compositions while institutionalized. His complex invented world became one of the best-known bodies of work collected as art brut.
Art therapy: Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses artistic activity to support psychological care. Art brut concerns the status and character of artworks, not a therapeutic method.
Collection de l'Art Brut: Collection de l'Art Brut is a museum collection in Lausanne devoted to art brut. Its holdings preserve works gathered under Dubuffet’s influential approach.
Self-taught art: Self-taught art is art made by artists who developed their practice without formal art instruction. Many art brut creators worked without professional training, though the terms are not identical.

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