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 ...
After passing the folded piece of paper back and forth, you open it up to gleefully reveal a man in a bowler hat, with huge breasts, a kilt, and octopus tentacles for legs. This is Exquisite Corpse at ...
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 ...
If two heads are better than one, several heads must be better than that. John Pruitt, a local artist, aims to achieve that creative collaboration by reviving an old parlor game in which groups of ...
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 ...
If you have a blank sketchbook lying around, “one weird trick” from the Surrealists can turn any social gathering into a collaborative art session. Instead of sequestering yourself at home with your ...
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 ...