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. |
Other imaginative techniques of which he was a leading exponent were frottage and decalcomania. |
I remember once decorating a card for Mother with some decalcomania pictures. |
Ernst also later practised decalcomania, a process developed by Oscar Dominguez around 1936, which involved rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. |
He later practiced decalcomania, a process that involves rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. |