Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

“Dubuffet undermines order, caves it in. He creates ruins, a world of fissures and of vacuums with the power to draw the teeming population of his art into view, flat against the picture plane. Hence the brutal paradox: for his art to be inclusive, it must also exclude; it must banish those simple geometries and unbroken fields of color whose job is to enforce clarity.”

(Carter Ratcliff, “Jean Dubuffet,” Pace Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 2)