Wow.
I never knew what decalcomania was.
The first surrealist painting that I connected with is a Max Ernst giant freaky bird creature. It's so cool. He must have used that technique on it.
I am also checking out Bogomil's Court before breakfast:) This is my coffee this morning!
Thanks - decalcomania is something I come back to time and again - it is a great shortcut to tons of fine detail that makes peeps scratch their heads wondering how on earth it was painted (I also use it on a sheet of plastic sometimes and fold it like a Rohrschach, then I can transfer it with acrylic medium to the painting and peel away the plastic when dry - if I do that on a board, then they can't figure out how I folded the board, lol) .
At times when I have no clue what to do, I start with decalcomania and then see where it takes me.
About Max Ernst you mentioned: I think I know the painting you speak of @tarotbyfergus - I just can't think of the title, otherwise I'd google it. I probably would find it rifling through images by him, but that could take ages: he was very prolific. A few years ago I saw one of the largest exhibitions of his work ever assembled, at the Albertina in Vienna.
I think it was called L'Ange du Foyer.
Ubu Imperator also reacted with me.
So cool...
I love how there's no way to really tell how big the creature is in L'Ange du Foyer.
It might be way bigger than a mountain, or maybe it's tiny!
When he was a child at the time his sister was born, his parrot died. Somehow he related the two events and many of his paintings have this mythical bird Loplop, his alter ego, in it.
Just judging from the perspective, L'Ange du Foyer is huge, I estimate big enough to give Godzilla a run for the money!
Ubu Imperator is influenced by the play Ubu Roi
You are a fountain of knowledge Otto!