Woman Grinding Coffee

Dubuffet, Jean

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1945	en_US
dc.creator	Dubuffet, Jean	en_US
dc.date	1945	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-04-14T15:55:25Z
dc.date.available	2011-04-14T15:55:25Z
dc.date.issued	1945	en_US
dc.identifier	032187	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/63319	en_US
dc.description	Plaster, oil, and tar with sand on canvas 115 x 88 cm "In 1945 Dubuffet had begun creating what he referred to as hautes pâtes, paintings in which a thick paste served as the ground, color was used sparingly, and contours were scratched like graffiti. The paste used for the ground was made of tar, asphalt, and white lead, often enriched with cement, plaster, or varnishes, to which sand, coal dust, pebbles, and pieces of glass or straw might also be added. Gradually, color virtually disappeared from his work altogether. Consistent with his "anti-art" position, Dubuffet rejected traditional portraiture, which he regarded as facile imitation. The Coffee Grinder is in fact based on the artist's wife, whom he frequently watched as she sat and cranked the handle of a coffee grinder gripped between her knees. The subject, frontally viewed, became a theme for a lithograph and for several drawings and paintings. The final version, however, bears slight resemblance to Lily, who was dark-haired, angular, and thin. Dubuffet flattened the head and broadened the body so that the hieratic figure completely fills the picture's frame. Dubuffet silhouetted this pale form against a somber background, actually a relief built with droppings, lumps, and furrows, combined into a substance that he described as "earth fermented by water." -- From http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=21&viewMode=1&item=1995%2E183 accessed 6/24/2004	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	116.2 x 88.9 cm (45.75 x 35 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	oil on canvas	en_US
dc.format.medium	sand	en_US
dc.format.medium	tar	en_US
dc.format.medium	plaster	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	123726	en_US
dc.subject	Coffee	en_US
dc.subject	Women -- Portraits	en_US
dc.subject	Artists' spouses	en_US
dc.subject	Grinders (culinary tools)	en_US
dc.subject	Outsider art	en_US
dc.subject	Standing	en_US
dc.subject	Art, French --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Art, Modern --20th century	en_US
dc.title	Woman Grinding Coffee	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Coffee Grinder	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Cafetière (ou Mouleuse de café)	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 1995.142	en_US
vra.culturalContext	French	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Painting	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985)	en_US