Art Brut.

Unlike many avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, art brut was not a movement consciously created by a group of artists but a term coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) to describe the collective work of people outside the professional art world. Art brut is unaffected by trends, traditions, or techniques and has a specific directness, purity, and rawness of vision. Although art brut embraces any painting or sculpture created outside the mainstream contemporary or traditional art, Dubuffet was mostly interested in the works by those with mental health issues, prisoners, children, and other untrained artists, who created "from their own depths and not from the stereotypes of Classical or fashionable art." In 1948, Dubuffet and other artists, including Andre Breton (1896–1966) founded Compagnie de l'Art Brut to house his growing collection. Known as Collection de l'Art Brut, this is now one of the largest collections of outsider art in the world and, since 1976, is based in its own museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.