FROTTAGE, Max Ernst & Surrealism. How to do Frottage (Freestyle & Drawing), by Rob the Art Teacher

Frottage is the process of creating a rubbing of a textured surface using a pencil, a wax crayon, or Conté crayons. In this video I answer these simple questions: Who invented frottage? Why did he think it was an interesting method? How do we use frottage? Plus, I demonstrate two simple frottage methods for you to try: Freestyle Frottage, and Frottage Drawing! Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of Dadaism and of Surrealism. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images—and grattage, a similar technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Ernst https://www.moma.org/artists/1752 https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/max-ernst/collage-frottage-grattage/ PICTURE CREDITS: This video includes artworks by the following artists (listed in order of appearance): Toyen (Marie Čermínová), "Untitled" c.1943, "Gobi" 1931, and "Composition" 1947-1952 Anonymous (brass rubbings) Max Ernst (various) René Magritte "Personal Values" 1952, and "Clairvoyance" Salvador Dalí "Lobster Telephone" 1938 Eileen Agar "Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse" Leonora Carrington "Evening Conference" 1949 Óscar Domínguez "Jamais" c.1938, Picasso Museum, Barcelona MUSIC: This video uses royalty-free background music track “PerituneMaterial_Sakuya2” SOUNDS: This video uses sound from Zapsplat.com: “ftus_children_recess_school_playground_laughter_voices_balls_bounce_kick_Munich_Germany” If you enjoyed this video, be sure to like and share. If you’d like to see more content like this, please subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9X73pj0aUXc2-bWNCdi58A/ Let me know what you think, in the comments above. You can also find me on LinkedIn: http://nz.linkedin.com/in/robgarrettcfa Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His public service includes periods as a senior manager of arts development and as a Council member (governance) with New Zealand’s arts council. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.