''Froissage'' is a method of
collage
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developed by
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artist
Ladislav Novák
Ladislav Novák (5 December 1931 – 21 March 2011) was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain. in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage is
Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art.
Life
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In his lifetime, Kolář acquired a reputation as one of the most inventive 20th-century
Czech
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artists. A member of
Group 42
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and the first Czech Group of Experimental Poetry, he assisted in the development of the collage techniques of froissage and confrontage. During that time, writing poems and crumpling up pieces of paper were considered subversive activities and were discouraged by the then-powerful
Communist
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regime. Kolář endured harassment and imprisonment, and eventually emigrated to
France
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, where he was finally able to attain international renown for his work.
Froissage is a unique art in which the contours of a crumpled piece of paper are used to create a drawing. Currently on display in a small gallery at the
French Institute
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, Kolář's froissages incorporate previously existing 17th-century French drawings to form more modern, abstract pictures. The results occasionally can be likened to early
Cubist
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efforts to capture multiple motions and images within a single frame.
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References
External links
Kijno (Ladislas Kijno) : Froissage video on Youtube
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