{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"8573"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Eva and Morris Feld Folk Art Acquisition Fund"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1944"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2022    22    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2022.22.1"},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"American Folk Art Museum"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil and gouache on cardboard"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27958/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27958"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/26571/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"26571"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Freundlicher Popanz"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Object information is a work in progress andmay be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and theAmerican Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","The art of Gaston Chaissac radiates the resourceful awkwardness often associated with the concept of art brut coined by Dubuffet, with whom he would have had a close and complicated relationship starting in 1946. This riveting, early painting by Chaissac is titled Freundlicher Popanz, which can be literally translated as \u201cfriendly mumbo jumbo,\u201d meaning a language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment. Even though we know that Chaissac used titles influenced by poetry, \u201cFreundlicher\u201d is more likely derivative of the name of his friend, Jewish artist Otto Freundlich, while the colorful spotted central motif can evoke the patches of color typical of Freundlich\u2019s abstract work. We know that Chaissac became involved in the art world when he lived next door to Freundlich and his partner Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss in Paris during the 1930s. They showed him modern art and supported his efforts to paint. This painting is dated 1944, which is a year after Freundlich\u2019s death shortly after his deportation to Majdanek Concentration Camp"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"157551"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"Lower Left"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"France"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"3018","content":"Gaston Chaissac"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Object information is a work in progress andmay be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and theAmerican Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","The art of Gaston Chaissac radiates the resourceful awkwardness often associated with the concept of art brut coined by Dubuffet, with whom he would have had a close and complicated relationship starting in 1946. This riveting, early painting by Chaissac is titled Freundlicher Popanz, which can be literally translated as \u201cfriendly mumbo jumbo,\u201d meaning a language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment. Even though we know that Chaissac used titles influenced by poetry, \u201cFreundlicher\u201d is more likely derivative of the name of his friend, Jewish artist Otto Freundlich, while the colorful spotted central motif can evoke the patches of color typical of Freundlich\u2019s abstract work. We know that Chaissac became involved in the art world when he lived next door to Freundlich and his partner Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss in Paris during the 1930s. They showed him modern art and supported his efforts to paint. This painting is dated 1944, which is a year after Freundlich\u2019s death shortly after his deportation to Majdanek Concentration Camp"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1944"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1944"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"11 7/16 x 7 7/8\""}}]}