Fumage

Fumage ( double the smoking ) is an invented by Wolfgang paals surrealist technique in which the Rußspur of smoke such as a candle or an oil lamp on paper or canvas is held. With its fumaGen paals succeeded in 1936, the breakthrough in exile in Paris in 1945 and surprised at the gallery Art of This Century, the New York art world. The traces of fire and smoke came into the circle so comparable, developed by colleagues such as Max Ernst and André Masson techniques where each random structures ignite the imagination of the artist and the viewer. In Surrealism, it is more the rule that the soot of Fumage occurs in association with oil painting with bright colors so in addition to their own, sometimes intense shades of gray. In this sense, Salvador Dalí Fumage has used it, however, called " sfumato ". In a decidedly non- figurative imagery encountered Fumage around 1960 again in the works of artists such as Yves Klein, Burhan Dogancay, Jiri Georg Dokoupil and Otto Piene.

• Technique of painting