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Frottage

Frottage

Frottage is a technique where a textured surface is rubbed with a pencil or other drawing tool to create art.

Max Ernst started using the frottage technique in sketches from 1925 onwards. The word ‘frottage’ comes from the French word for rubbing. Ernst was inspired by an aged hardwood floor with pronounced grain patterns caused by years of cleaning, which resembled strange images to him.

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Curated by Julian Schnabel

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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.
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