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art brut

noun
\ ˈär(t)-ˈbrut How to pronounce art brut (audio) , -ˈbrᵫt\

Definition of art brut

: outsider art … a broad range of graphic style from art brut to bathroom graffiti …Publishers Weekly, 3 Sept. 2001 … this odd Southern girl has been releasing dreamily primitive electric folk-blues records for more than ten years now—wobbly art brut affairs held together with hair and saliva …Spin, February 2006

First Known Use of art brut

1949, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for art brut

borrowed from French, literally, “raw [crude, unprocessed] art”

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