In some cases, Stewen disregards the printed text and in others allows it to inform the image, eliciting an almost
surrealist exquisite corpse relationship between captions which no longer apply and their new pictorial forms.
Not exact matches
Friday, November 22, 2013 Doors open at 7 pm, Performance starts promptly at 7:30 pm Space limited RSVP is now closed Drifting: A Theatrical
Exquisite Corpse draws from the surrealist tradition of the exquisite corpse, a collaborative exercise using words and images to construct a figure o
Exquisite Corpse draws from the
surrealist tradition of the
exquisite corpse, a collaborative exercise using words and images to construct a figure o
exquisite corpse, a collaborative exercise using words and images to construct a figure or phrase.
«Once considered a minor medium, drawing became a predominant means of expression and innovation among
surrealist artists in the first half of the twentieth century, resulting in a rich array of graphic techniques including automatic drawing, collage, decalcomania,
exquisite corpse, and frottage.»
«
Exquisite corpse» was a parlor game taken up by the
Surrealists whereby three artists collaborated on a portrait or drawing without knowing what came before or after their respective contributions.
The notion of the
Surrealists, and the
exquisite corpse was a conceptual experiment of art making — this same concept is the beginning working premise for this exhibition.
Games were also intrinsic to the work of war - addled
Surrealists and Dadaists, the inventors of the
exquisite corpse and automatic drawing, in their quest to upend the bourgeois pretensions of art and free the artistic imagination.
Working in a method akin to the
surrealist game of the
exquisite corpse, where artists continued the drawn line of a colleague, Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon exchanged drawings for one another to complete.