Thoughts & Work. 2nd Year BA Drawing.

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Fumage


Surrealist technique invented by Wolfgang Paalen (1907-59) in the 1930s. It involves using a candle to blacken a piece of paper and then creating a work of art from the resultant image.
Bloomsbury Guide to Art, © Bloomsbury 1996

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