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page 1Surrealist techniques

decalcomania
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.

grattage
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.
frottage
method of creative production
exquisite corpse
surrealist automatic writing & art technique
surrealist automatism
art technique
cut-up technique
literary technique based on rearranging text
décollage
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
fumage
thumb|upright=1.1|Wolfgang Paalen, Pays interdit ("Forbidden Land"), 1936–37, oil painting
paranoiac-critical method
surrealist technique for creation of artwork developed by Salvador Dalí
surrealist technique
techniques used in Surrealism