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blot drawing

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blot drawing. A technique devised by Alexander Cozens, whereby an accidental mark or ‘blot’ on the paper is used as the starting point for an imaginative landscape composition. A comparable suggestion had been made much earlier by Leonardo da Vinci and somewhat similar techniques were later used by the Surrealists for stimulating subconscious imagery (see automatism).

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blot drawing

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

blot drawing A technique devised by Alexander Cozens, whereby an accidental mark or ‘blot’ on the paper is used as the starting point for an imaginative landscape composition. A similar suggestion had been made much earlier by Leonardo da Vinci and somewhat similar techniques were later used by the Surrealists for stimulating unconscious imagery (see Automatism).

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