Cadavre Exquis
Cadavre Exquis (German: excellent or delicious corpse ) describes a playful method developed in Surrealism to give space to chance in the creation of texts and images.
Definition by André Breton :
- CADAVRE EXQUIS - game with folded paper, in which the aim is to have a sentence or a drawing constructed by several people without a fellow player being able to gain knowledge of the previous work. The classic example, which gave the game its name, forms the first part of a sentence won in this way: Le cadavre-exquis-boira-le-vin-nouveau (French = "The delicious-corpse-will-be-den- drink new wine ").
Breton further emphasizes that with the Cadavre exquis one has an infallible means of switching off critical thinking and giving free rein to the metaphorical faculty of the mind.
The procedure works like this: You agree on a fixed sentence scheme, e.g. B. Subject (article, adjective / attribute and noun) - predicate - adverbial determination - object (article, adjective and noun) . Everyone receives a piece of paper and now writes the beginning of a sentence (e.g. article and adjective), folds the paper so that what has been written is hidden, and passes the piece of paper on. In the following round, everyone writes a word from the next agreed category (in the given example: a noun), folds the piece of paper over and passes it on. The process repeats itself until the sentence is finished; small grammatical adjustments may have to be made.
Transferred to drawings: Several people draw a body; the first, for example, the head, the second upper body and arms, the third the lower abdomen, the fourth the legs, the last the feet. So that nobody sees what the other is doing, the paper is folded after each drawing, only the beginnings for the next section are visible. If the finished picture is spread out, a surreal, bizarre body image appears, a kind of collective collage .
The Cadavre Exquis was featured in the surrealist magazine La Révolution surréaliste in October 1927 .
Examples
- Le Cadavre Exquis - drawing by Yves Tanguy , Man Ray , Max Morise and Joan Miró (around 1926)
- Le Cadavre Exquis - 2 drawings by Victor Brauner , André Breton , Jacques Herold and Yves Tanguy (1935)
- Cadavre Exquises Vivantes - series of video collages made from found footage material by the artist duo PleaseBitteJaJa ( Ulu Braun , Roland Rauschmeier)
literature
- Alastair Brotchie, Mel Gooding (Ed.): A Book of Surrealist Games. Including the little Surrealist Dictionary. Shambala Redstone Editions, Boston et al. 1995, ISBN 1-57062-084-9 , pp. 25 and 143 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ André Breton, Paul Éluard : Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme. Éditions José Corti, Paris 1938.