Surrealist techniques

thumb|Fire & Ice H. Grobe (1975) – Example of a painting made with the decalcomania technique Decalcomania (from ) is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials.

thumb|Grattage, Apotheosis, Giovanni Guida, 2014 Grattage (literally "scratching", "scraping") is a technique in surrealist painting which consists of "scratching" fresh paint with a sharp blade.

method of creative production

surrealist automatic writing & art technique

art technique

literary technique based on rearranging text

Décollage is an art style that is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by ripping and tearing away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image. The French word "décollage" translates into English literally as "take-off" or "to become unglued" or "to become unstuck". Examples of décollage include etrécissements and cut-up technique. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser

thumb|upright=1.1|Wolfgang Paalen, Pays interdit ("Forbidden Land"), 1936–37, oil painting

surrealist technique for creation of artwork developed by Salvador Dalí

techniques used in Surrealism