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130: 122: 392: 449: 25: 180: 237:), thus creating a rubbing. The drawing can be left as it is or used as the basis for further refinement. Ernst was inspired by an ancient wooden floor where the grain of the planks had been accentuated by many years of scrubbing. The patterns of the graining suggested strange images to him. He captured these by laying sheets of paper on the floor and then rubbing over them with a soft pencil. 171:, and many other substances. For all its simplicity, the technique can be used to produce blur-free images of minuscule elevations and depressions on areas of any size in a way that can hardly be matched by even the most elaborate, state-of-the-art methods. In this way, surface elevations measuring only a few thousandths of a millimeter can be made visible. 203:
uses, including finding out what was written on a sheet of paper removed from a pad by rubbing the impressions left on subsequent sheets or other backing materials
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of a surface created by placing a piece of paper or similar material over the subject and then rubbing the paper with something to deposit marks, most commonly
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art form; a method of creative production developed by
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in 1925. The artist places a piece of paper over an
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verification
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adding citations to reliable sources
"Rubbing" art
news
newspapers
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
frottage
texture
charcoal
pencil
chalk
wax

Brass rubbing
monumental brasses
Forensic
surrealist
surrealist
Max Ernst
uneven surface
pastel
pencil

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