Max Ernst used texture rubbings to overcome his fear of the white canvas, and ignite his imagination.
“Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.”
Max Ernst, 1891-1976
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frot·tage frôˈtäZH/ noun: the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.
There is a modern slang definition for frottage, but this is not the place for such things.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”10178″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wolfgang Paalen, Austrian, active in Mexico, 1905 – 1959 Smoke Painting (Fumage), 1938 Fumage is a surrealist art technique popularized by Wolfgang Paalen in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas. Similar to other surrealist art, the …
Usually when people draw, they draw a thing, and then that thing floats in a kind of nothing space called the “background.” But what would happen if you didn’t draw things? What would happen if instead of things you drew the space between things? What would it look like to draw the air or the …
Max Ernst; frottage to free the freeze
Max Ernst used texture rubbings to overcome his fear of the white canvas, and ignite his imagination.
frot·tage frôˈtäZH/ noun: the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art.
There is a modern slang definition for frottage, but this is not the place for such things.
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