Exquisite corpse

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Last night students began working with India Ink. For the introduction of wet media, we played the Surrealist game, the "Exquisite Corpse." It is a game of collaboration requiring a minimum of three players. One for the head, one for the torso and one for the legs. Like all Surrealist games it is based on irrational thought and combinations pulled from the subconscious. Aside from the game, the objective was to explore various value and textural techniques in a fun and inventive way and to…

Faultline Artspace is hosting a public Exquisite Corpse Drawing Marathon

Create a fantastical creature with your friends or whānau. The results willl be strange, funny, and unpredictable!

George Grosz

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), 1928

Exquisite Corpse is the name of a Surrealist parlor game in which a collection of images are assembled by several people into one completed image, typically of some sort of figure, whether human or animal. Begin with a sheet of paper that is folded into thirds (or fourths). The first participant would draw a head on the top third of the page (continuing the neck lines slightly onto the middle panel) which is then folded over and handed to the next participant to draw the torso, without…

Draw Paint Print like the Great Artists

Museum Art Hotel Wellington — Emily Forgot