In this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a sheet ...
On Tuesday, February 7, some of Buffalo’s most celebrated artists are participating in an “Exquisite Corpse” drawing event at Revolution Gallery. Similar to an old parlour game called consequences ...
Exquisite Corpse by Valentine Hugo, Andre Bretan, Tristan Tzara and Greta Knutson, "Landscape" (1933), colored pencil on black paper (via moma.org) With the hype surrounding the Cindy Sherman ...
While the tradition of drawing games has been around a long time, French Surrealist André Breton and his group of artsy friends are credited with making Exquisite Corpse popular in the 1920s. They ...
“Exquisite Corpse” is a term for a collaborative art game created by the Surrealists of the early 20th century. A paper is folded into thirds and three artists take turns drawing on one section, after ...
In the early 1920s, André Breton used the phrase “pure psychic automatism” to describe a particular methodology employed by members of an avant-garde movement known as surrealism. Over 100 years later ...
Artists often seclude themselves in their studios with nothing but their tools and their own imagination. That can get lonely. “I think people are craving collaborative projects,” said Katy Lemle, the ...
Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture with only limited knowledge of the other players ...