Inventor of the automatic
technique fumage in which the artist would use the smoke of a kerosene lamp or a candle to create a mark on canvas or paper, which served as the beginning image for a more complete painting.
Station 16 Gallery's latest is titled MINUIT MOINS UNE, a solo exhibition by Montreal - based artist Steven Spazuk, highlighting a selection of his unique fire paintings created using a technique
called fumage.
Timothy Erickson is a visual artist currently interested in the
technique fumage.
Station 16 Gallery is thrilled to present MINUIT MOINS UNE, a solo exhibition by Montreal - based artist STEVEN SPAZUK highlighting a selection of his unique fire paintings created using a technique
called fumage.
In addition to Paalen, Salvador Dalí used
the fumage technique extensively.
Rosemarie Fiore burned firecrackers to get
the fumage effect of her paintings; Odili Donald Odita relied on Michelangelo - style scaffolding for the weeks it took him to paint his Heaven's Gate on the walls and ceiling of the museum's lobby.
Paintings from the 1930s included Combat des Princes Saturniens III (1939), a biomorphic abstraction created by means of
fumage, the technique of using candle smoke to start off a composition.