Word: loplop
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...past. Yet Ernst's love of images that rise from chance blots has a pedigree that goes back to Leonardo, who spoke of finding battle scenes in stains on a wall. His obsessive themes-the haunted garden of decaying vegetation, the birds and chimeras, the figures of Loplop and La Belle Jardinière-describe a territory of imagination that seems both mysterious and exactly mapped...
...experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this.'' The Loplop Spirit. Tricky as these techniques sound, they never intrude upon the painting; what might have been mere sleight of hand turns into genuine magic...
...artist he ranks high, but perhaps his greatest charm is that he never gets overwhelmed with the importance of being Ernst. All his life he has cherished a private spirit called "Loplop, Bird Supe rior.'' and this is typical of the man who has never wholly deserted childhood. If he has his nightmares, they are quickly over, for his very next painting will brim with laughter. Even his barbarian hordes seem a trifle whimsical, as if they were spooks that a child might see in the shad ows. Just as the image refuses to be itself...
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