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“Ernst rubbed colour out of the floorboards — oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber summoned by friction rather than brushwork.”
Max Ernst
Painter · Surrealism · 1891–1976
German Surrealist whose frottage forests and bird-headed figures sit in oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber.
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“Ernst rubbed colour out of the floorboards — oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber summoned by friction rather than brushwork.”
German Surrealist whose frottage forests and bird-headed figures sit in oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber.