DESCRIPTION
"Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution."
-http://www.exquisitecorpse.com/definition/About.html, "Dada & Surrealist Art," by William S. Rubin
- These poetic fragments were felt to reveal the "unconscious reality in the personality of the group"
- Example: "The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine" (how the game got its name)
- Later adapted to use drawings, instead of just words
DATES
- 1918-1930's
- Surrealism still lives on today
- Many examples of "Exquisite Corpse" style works being made today
- movies, novels, music
PARTICIPANTS
Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise,Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, Paul and Nusch Éluard.
EXAMPLES
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| Ray, Tanguy, Miro, Morise; 1927. |
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| Hugo, Breton, Knutson, Tzara; 1933. |
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| Hugo, Breton, Eluard (Paul & Nush); 1934. |
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| Ray, Tanguy, Miro, Morise; 1928. |
- By using camera phone, one person could take a picture and send it to a person in a completely different location and then that person has to take a picture that somehow connects to the picture sent to them.
- Shapes have to create a fluid movement, but do not necessarily have to make sense.
Example:
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