The artistic field is not exempt from this history of disability, contributing to the creation of as many paths to emancipation as they do to persistent clichés. The artist Jean Dubuffet first uses the term art brut in 1945, following a visit to a psychiatric hospital. The term “brut” refers to a “primitive” genius, highlighting “the medical and ableist imagination that runs through the very definition of art brut.” In practice, it results in a romanticization of what is commonly referred to as “madness.” Through a positive mirror effect, it also defines “normality,” an ideal from which sick and disabled people are excluded.