Last night students began working with India Ink. For the introduction of wet media, we played the Surrealist game, the "Exquisite Corpse." It is a game of collaboration requiring a minimum of three players. One for the head, one for the torso and one for the legs. Like all Surrealist games it is based on irrational thought and combinations pulled from the subconscious. Aside from the game, the objective was to explore various value and textural techniques in a fun and inventive way and to…

Fold a ouece of paper over into 3-4 sectiobs (however many peopke you have). Each person draws a head/body/legs, the neveal your character!

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Exquisite Corpse was invented in Paris in 1925 by Surrealist Artists Tanguy, Prevert, Breton and Duchamp. It is a drawing exercise whereby, in our case, the paper is folded into 3 equal sections and the first person draws the head. This is folded back so the next person cannot see the head but draws the body and then this is also folded to be hidden and the last person draws legs. These Exquisite Corpse Drawings are truly EXQUISITE. Stage 2, your truly incredible creativity and imagination…

Exquisite corpse is a drawing activity invented in 1925 by members of the Surrealist group, including Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prevert, and Andre Breton. The game involves a group of players, the first of whom draws the top of an object or a head of a human or an animal on a piece of paper, folds the paper to hide the drawing, and passes the paper to the next player, who adds the next part, and so on, until a collective composition is complete.

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