Tête barbue (Bearded Head) by Jean Dubuffet

This important example in the history of chance in art consists of simply a found piece of driftwood that happened to look like something else. Dubuffet noticed the piece after thinking the natural shape resembled a head and the barnacles resembled hair. He burned a few additional holes and placed the work on a pedestal. Dubuffet believed that natural forms, simplicity and rawness endowed his work with greater authenticity.