Blotography
The representation of patterns and figures made of blobs of color is called blotchography (or folded images).
In the 19th century, blotchographs were made from ink blots, a by-product of writing with a pen; therefore, writers in particular were passionate blobsographers, such as George Sand and Victor Hugo . They saw figures in the blob and worked them out with a few strokes of the pen. Often the motifs they found inspired them to write little poems or stories. The German doctor, medical writer and poet Justinus Kerner brought out a little book, which he gave the title "Klecksographien" and coined this term.
Since the interpretation of the blobs depends on the experience and attitudes of the viewer and thus conclusions can be drawn about the psyche of the viewer, it found its way into psychodiagnostics at the beginning of the 20th century. The interpretation of the ink blots became the basis of the projective diagnostic method ( Rorschach test ) first published in 1921 by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach .
Kerner and Rorschach folded the paper, on which they had dabs of ink , in the middle. This created symmetrical representations that can be interpreted as representational representations. In contemporary art, the dab of coffee is often a source of inspiration for imaginative drawings and their interpretation. Splashes of color are used in the Hirameki. These amoeba shapes inspire the viewer to see shapes, which is also known as pareidolia . With just a few strokes, either the blobs themselves are added to a motif or the negative space becomes an imaging space (see also Figure-Basic-Perception ).
The blotography is to be assigned to the apophenic painting, since it ends in a chance product (the blot) and the interpretation of what is "seen" has a special, individual meaning that the work of art does not have ( apophenia ). Justinus Kerner wrote little poems about his characters. The Berlin artist Hoploid, coffee maker, speaks of the "inversion of the illustration process": Here illustration does not illustrate a story, but the randomly created, individually interpreted image itself tells a story.
Representatives of the present day blobography are Peng and Hu (Hirameki), Hoploid, Stefan Kuhnigk, J. Sophia Sanner.
A small exhibition in the Graphisches Kabinett of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne was devoted to the topic from August 9th to October 13th 2013 under the title The Klecksography - Between Finger Exercise and Soul Inspection .
In the permanent exhibition Unterm Parnass of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach, numerous Klecksographien from Justinus Kerner's book Klecksographien are on display.
Web links
- Art dictionary
- About the exhibition in Cologne: [1]
- Article about the exhibition in the FAZ: [2]
literature
- Peter Rühmkorf : Small stain knowledge. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1988 - Insel-Bücherei 1082, ISBN 3-7351-0048-1 .
- Susanne Niedernolte: Artists who spill. The Berliner Kaffeeklecksalbum Wilhelm von Kaulbachs, Michael Echters and Julius Muhrs. Ibidem, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0130-6 .
- Thomas Ketelsen (Ed.): The blotchography - between finger exercise and soul inspection (= The uncertain look , Volume 11). Cologne 2013, ISBN 3-938800-14-3 .
- Andrea Fix: Justinus Kerner's Theatrum Mundi. Adhesive album, picture atlas, collage work. Marbacher Magazin 130, Marbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-937384-65-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Sand 1804–1876. Retrieved April 16, 2018 (French).
- ↑ La Cime du rêve - Les Surréalistes et Victor Hugo . In: Maisons de Victor Hugo | Paris / Guernesey . July 2, 2013 ( paris.fr [accessed April 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Justinus Kerner: Kleksographien. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Stuttgart 1890 (posthumous)
- ^ Rorschach H. Psychodiagnostik. Methodology and results of a perception diagnostic experiment (interpretation of random forms). Bern, E. Bircher 1921
- ↑ Hirameki - the ingenious blotch and scribble fun. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 17, 2018 ; accessed on April 16, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
