(movement, 1945)
The idea of "Art Brut" appeared around 1945. Its conception is generally attributed to the French painter Jean Dubuffet who meant by the term
"works executed by those immune to artistic culture in which imitation has no role; in which their creators take all (subjects, materials,
transposition, rhythm, style etc.) from their own individuality and not from the base of classical art or stylish trends". One can understand from
this definition that parctitioners of "Art Brut" are mentally or socially marginal: prisoners, patients of psychiatric hospitals or other institutions,
originals, solitary beings, condemned, all individuals who have a social status removed from the constraints of cultural conditioning.