Decalcomania

Under Décalcomanie refers to the artistic technique of color proof or color of set-off. She is assigned to the area of ​​the monotype, but differs in that it does not aim to represent a motif but independent to act as a motive.

Was discovered the technique in 1750 in England, where it was then imported in 1865 to the United States. The technique experienced by the Surrealists an upswing: 1935 by Óscar Domínguez and from 1939 through Ithell Colquhoun. Max Ernst developed the technique further: Unlike Dominguez it bordered forms in the amorphous random structures and painted over the remaining area. One example is his painting Europe After the Rain II ( 1940-42 ). In the 1950s and early 1960s, the technology found its way into comics such as Flash Gordon, the Katzenjammer Kids Dagwood Bumstead or.

The Yale University found that hand-painted Décalcomanien on repeated use have a tendency to generate fractals.