Dimensions: image: 472 x 487 mm
Copyright: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: We’re looking at Jean Dubuffet's “Leaves with Bird," a compelling piece held in the Tate Collections. Editor: Whoa, it's like a dense forest floor exploded onto the paper! All that texture, it’s like a chaotic, beautiful mess. Curator: Dubuffet, known for his Art Brut, challenges conventional beauty standards. His use of raw, untamed forms invites a re-evaluation of marginalized voices. Editor: It feels… primal. Like getting lost in the woods and finding something ancient and knowing, you know? The bird almost feels like a spirit guide. Curator: The high contrast underscores themes of visibility and invisibility. Who and what is seen, and what remains obscured in societal structures? Editor: I love that. Makes you wonder what other creatures might be hiding in plain sight. Gives me chills thinking about it. Curator: His subversion of traditional composition encourages us to question established hierarchies. Editor: It’s invigorating! A reminder that wildness and mess can hold just as much truth as careful order.
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This was one of a series of lithographs that Dubuffet printed from collages of ink-stained paper. Many of them also included dried and pressed plants, supplied by a botanist friend of the artist. Dubuffet later described the transformation of these everyday plants as they became the raw materials of art: 'My little bit of grass soaked in ink becomes a tree, becomes a play of light on the ground, becomes a fantastic cloud in the sky, becomes a whirlpool, becomes breath, becomes cry, becomes gaze.' Gallery label, September 2004
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