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What does decalcomania mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of transferring decorative designs onto surfaces using decals.
  2. A decal.
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Other imaginative techniques of which he was a leading exponent were frottage and decalcomania.
Ernst also later practised decalcomania, a process developed by Oscar Dominguez around 1936, which involved rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper.
This caution was overcome by the discovery of such techniques as frottage and decalcomania.
To obtain a decalcomania, photographs from magazines are transferred on paper by means of a chemical solvent.
There are obvious associations to be made with Ernst's and Tanguy's wet-paint technique, decalcomania.
The hat with movement is like a free-hand sketch, a hat without movement like a decalcomania.

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