Jean Dubuffet was the founder of art brut (“raw art”), a postwar movement premised on the idea that the most truthful, arresting art is made by individuals at the periphery of society and non-professionals such as children, prisoners, and psychiatric patients allegedly unburdened by cultural conventions and norms. Dubuffet’s compositions are thus distinguished by intentionally rudimentary lines, blocky, child-like figures, and a coarse application of paint. Here, the head seems almost too big for the canvas, pushing up against the top edge, while its simplified facial features float on boulder-like contours.

Wall label, 2021.