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About Art Brut (Dubuffet, 1948)

Art Brut — raw art — is the movement Jean Dubuffet founded in 1948 to champion work made outside the fine-art establishment: psychiatric patients, mediums, compulsive autodidacts. The visual language is dense, obsessive, and unapologetically crude — mud-brown grounds, oxblood marks, hand-lettered text crammed edge-to-edge with no breathing room. This design system channels that horror vacui energy into interfaces that feel handmade under duress, where every surface is filled and sophistication is the enemy.

Learn more about the Art Brut (Dubuffet, 1948) style

Origin
France / Switzerland
Era
1945–1976 (coined 1945, Collection founded 1948, Lausanne public 1976)
Key figures
Jean Dubuffet · Adolf Wölfli · Aloïse Corbaz · Henry Darger
Movements
Art Brut · Outsider Art · anti-academic art

Art Brut (Dubuffet, 1948) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
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Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

CaveatHeadings
Crimson TextBody
Courier PrimeMono
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