Micoteach session on How to Create a Frottage

1. MLIS 9152L
Microteach Session
June 20, 2012
Sandy Gallipeau
Max Ernst, Frottage 1970. Oil on canvas

2. AGENDA
 What is the Art of Frottage?
 Materials
 Activity
 Reflection
 Summary

3. Frottage
 Surrealistic art technique
 Max Ernst – 1925
 Rub charcoal on paper
over a textured surface to
create a work of art
 Textures from nature
Image from video featuring frottage technique demonstration
by artist Max Ernst

4. Frottage
Max Ernst

5. Frottage
 Stretched canvas
 Scrape paint over surface
 Capture additional
images
 Manmade textures
Max Ernst, The Forest (La forêt), 1927–28. Oil on canvas, 37 7/8 x
51 inches (96.3 x 129.5 cm). The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection

6. Medieval Church Brasses
 Brass portrait placed on
the burial vaults
 Life-sized portraits of
12th to 17th century
Europeans
 Knights in armour
 Kings, Queens, lords
and ladies - court or
religious dress
London Brass Rubbings Centre, St Martins-in-the-Field
 Church, Abbey http://www.smitf.org/page/visiting/brass.html

7. Gravestone Rubbings
 Replication of the
gravestones
 Historical - pioneer
 Genealogical
 Collect art work
 Gravestone kits
 waxes, tape & paper
 Cover the whole stone
 No marks
 Acid-free
http://GlobalGenealogy.com

8. Texture
Library
• Create a library
of textures for
reference and
inspiration
•Record
•Object
•Paper
•Tools
http://damselflys.blogspot.ca/2009_01_01_archive.html

9. Frottage Activity
Step 1. Select an object – Natural or Manmade
Natural Objects Manmade Objects
 Wood  Tiles
 Shells  Stencils
 Brazilian soapstone  Mats
 Corrugated cardboard
Step 2. Select a tools: Step 3. Select paper
 Charcoal
Rice paper
 Pencil Paper- various
 Wax
 Watercrayons Step 4. Repeat, if time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdU4JfY-bU

10. Reflection
Natural Objects Manmade Objects
 What did you create?  What did you create?
 What worked?  What worked?
 What didn’t work?  What didn’t work?
 Favorite texture?  Favorite texture?
Other comments?

11. Summary

12. Sources
 Gardner’s Art through the Ages
 Guggenheim Collection http://www.guggenheim.org
 London Brass Rubbings Centre, St Martins-in-the-Field
 MoMA http://www.moma.org/
 http://www.smitf.org/page/visiting/brass.html
 http://GlobalGenealogy.com
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdU4JfY-bU
 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst