Frottage
The frottage (fr. Frotter "rub") or attrition goes an old Chinese method back whose artistic potential of Max Ernst in 1925 for the Fine Arts was rediscovered and further developed. With frottage, the surface structure of an object or material is transferred to a piece of paper by rubbing it with chalk or pencil.
Unlike a " copy ", a rubbing process for reproducing engraved inscriptions, the technique of frottage does not serve to reproduce a model true to the original, but is itself an artistic stylistic device for integrating found structures into a panel painting . Colored areas get the structure of fabrics, wood grain, rough stone slabs, leaves or other things. Frottage techniques are mostly used in combination with other artistic forms of expression such as collage or complement traditional techniques such as oil or watercolor painting .
A continuation of this technique with other means can be found in the nitrofrottage .
Frottage of coins.
Frottage of stone.
Frottage of tree bark.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Welsch : "Frottage" : philosophical investigations into history, phenomenal constitution and meaning of a descriptive type, Würzburg, University, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation 1974