Landscape (Paysage)
Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901–1985
1951
Landscape (Paysage) is a 1951 ink-on-paper drawing in which Jean Dubuffet translates a place into childlike, graffiti-like loops, drips, and jagged marks to evoke the raw, lived sensation of terrain rather than a realistic view.
What hits you is a dense, restless web of black calligraphic strokes—thick blots, thin drips, looping scrawls and ladder-like hatchings—that race and overlap across the creamy paper like a frenetic, hand-drawn map.
The work epitomizes Dubuffet’s Art Brut–inspired rejection of academic polish, foregrounding crude, spontaneous mark-making that helped push postwar art toward raw expression and vernacular visual sources.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
10 3/4 × 12" (27.3 × 30.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
2730.1967
Palette
Exhibitions
