Itineraire 1959

This is ‘Itineraire’ by Jean Dubuffet, and you can tell he really went to town with the paint. Look at all that gold and brown! I bet he built it up layer after layer, almost like archaeology, digging down and finding these luminous, earthy tones. I can imagine Dubuffet in his studio, totally absorbed, maybe even wrestling with the canvas. What’s so cool about this is how it makes you think about the texture, the surface, the sheer physicality of painting. See that one long, vertical line? It's almost like a crack running through the earth, full of feeling, intention, meaning. Dubuffet was always pushing boundaries, like other painters too, who came before and after him, challenging what art could be. And that’s what I love about painting - it’s an ongoing conversation, where one artist inspires another, remixing ideas across time. It’s all embodied, and it’s never fixed, always open.