6th Grade- Jean Dubuffet Sculptures

For this project, we will look at Jean Dubuffet. We will look specifically at his sculptures using the Hourloupe style. You and a partner will create a sculpture in DuBuffet's Hourloupe style.

DAY 1- Intro

Today we will look at a history of DuBuffet and take a look at his artworks. 

Here is a brief biography of DuBuffet.

“French painter, sculptor, printmaker, collector and writer. He was temperamentally opposed to authority and any suggestion of discipline and devised for himself a coherent, if rebellious, attitude towards the arts and culture. For all his maverick challenges to the values of the art world, Dubuffet’s career exemplified the way in which an avant-garde rebel could encounter notoriety, then fame and eventual reverence. His revolt against beauty and conformity has come to be seen as a symptomatic and appreciable influence in 20th-century culture.”

“Dubuffet's Hourloupe style developed from a chance doodle while he was on the telephone. The basis of it was a tangle of clean black lines that forms cells, which are sometimes filled with unmixed color. He believed the style evoked the manner in which objects appear in the mind. This contrast between physical and mental representation later encouraged him to use the approach to create sculpture.”

“His primitive approach to art making, with its simple, childlike figures and bold, visually dramatic palette, has universal appeal and is instrumental in modern psychology and studies of mental development.”

Examples of DuBuffet sculptures in the hourloupe style

DAY 1 ACTIVITY

After you have watched the videos, get a piece of paper and begin practicing the hourloupe style, following the directions in the vimeo video above. Today is a practice day, so work on trying to capture the hourloupe style in your artwork.

DAY 2-3  Sculpture (Making pieces)

After discussing Dubuffet and his artworks we will begin to create our own DuBuffet styled sculptures.

1. Look through the slides and the links below to gain some inspiration for your sculpture idea.

2. Draw 5-6 shapes on the piece of paper. Make your shapes large enough to fill the paper.

3. Cut out your shapes.

4. Draw the Hourloupe style drawings on each side of your pieces.

Day 3-4 Sculpture (Assembling)

5. Put your pieces together by cutting small cuts into the pieces and sliding pieces together.

Click here to find examples of making a "base" for your sculpture so it will stand. 

You cannot use glue or tape to put pieces together.

6. We will display your sculptures in the library after you and your 

partner take a picture of it on Artsonia

Here are 3 links for you to look at some sculpture ideas for your project.

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

AR Standards: CR1.6.1 CR1.6.3 CR2.6.1 CR2.6.2 P4.6.1 R7.6.1