FUMAGE
Fumage,
a French term meaning "smoke" or "vapor" was
first recorded as an art technique by Wolfgang
Paalen, a Surrealist painter in the 1930s, who used the smoky
marks as a basis for his surrealist
landscapes and other works.
I
ran across this technique on my own in 1998 and have made literally
thousands of pieces perfecting my use of it, which focuses on pleasing
contrast and composition, with "accidental" representational
imagery thrown in. The shapes made by the smoke lend themselves
well to Rorschach-like
mental projections and, aside from the uncanny
clearer images that can be seen in many of them, are good for
hours of gazing and imagining.
Click
here to see the description of my
sold out fumage series "TWENTY SQUARES" from 2005.
Jennifer's Action Paintings
Jennifer's Special
Effect Polaroids
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