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MACKINTOSH dwight

[1906, Hayword, Californie, États-Unis — 1999, Hayword, Californie, États-Unis]

Dwight Mackintosh, affected by a mental disability, was institutionalized from age 16 to 72. In 1978, he was allowed to live outside the institutions and joined the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, where he became one of its leading artists.
His drawings, at the intersection of writing and image, unfold in long, fluid lines that form a variety of motifs: an invented language, boysses – nude figures with red cheeks and long hair –, vehicles inhabited by transparent figures, and animals. From 1988 onward, the silhouettes blur, lines multiply, concentric circles fill the compositions, and the motifs explode.