This document provides an overview of the frottage art technique created by Max Ernst in 1925. It involves rubbing charcoal or other media on paper placed over a textured surface to create an artwork. The document discusses materials and procedures for creating frottages, examples of frottage artworks, and related techniques such as brass rubbings and gravestone rubbings. It includes an agenda for a microteach session on frottage that involves demonstrating the technique, reflecting on results, and summarizing key points.

1. MLIS 9152L
Microteach Session
June 20, 2012
Sandy Gallipeau
Max Ernst, Frottage 1970. Oil on canvas

2. AGENDA
 What is the Art of Frottage?
 Materials
 Activity
 Reflection
 Summary

3. Frottage
 Surrealistic art technique
 Max Ernst – 1925
 Rub charcoal on paper
over a textured surface to
create a work of art
 Textures from nature
Image from video featuring frottage technique demonstration
by artist Max Ernst

4. Frottage
Max Ernst

5. Frottage
 Stretched canvas
 Scrape paint over surface
 Capture additional
images
 Manmade textures
Max Ernst, The Forest (La forêt), 1927–28. Oil on canvas, 37 7/8 x
51 inches (96.3 x 129.5 cm). The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection

6. Medieval Church Brasses
 Brass portrait placed on
the burial vaults
 Life-sized portraits of
12th to 17th century
Europeans
 Knights in armour
 Kings, Queens, lords
and ladies - court or
religious dress
London Brass Rubbings Centre, St Martins-in-the-Field
 Church, Abbey http://www.smitf.org/page/visiting/brass.html

7. Gravestone Rubbings
 Replication of the
gravestones
 Historical - pioneer
 Genealogical
 Collect art work
 Gravestone kits
 waxes, tape & paper
 Cover the whole stone
 No marks
 Acid-free
http://GlobalGenealogy.com

8. Texture
Library
• Create a library
of textures for
reference and
inspiration
•Record
•Object
•Paper
•Tools
http://damselflys.blogspot.ca/2009_01_01_archive.html

9. Frottage Activity
Step 1. Select an object – Natural or Manmade
Natural Objects Manmade Objects
 Wood  Tiles
 Shells  Stencils
 Brazilian soapstone  Mats
 Corrugated cardboard
Step 2. Select a tools: Step 3. Select paper
 Charcoal
Rice paper
 Pencil Paper- various
 Wax
 Watercrayons Step 4. Repeat, if time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdU4JfY-bU

10. Reflection
Natural Objects Manmade Objects
 What did you create?  What did you create?
 What worked?  What worked?
 What didn’t work?  What didn’t work?
 Favorite texture?  Favorite texture?
Other comments?

11. Summary

12. Sources
 Gardner’s Art through the Ages
 Guggenheim Collection http://www.guggenheim.org
 London Brass Rubbings Centre, St Martins-in-the-Field
 MoMA http://www.moma.org/
 http://www.smitf.org/page/visiting/brass.html
 http://GlobalGenealogy.com
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdU4JfY-bU
 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst