{"id":66937,"date":"2025-06-15T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=66937"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:20:58","slug":"absent-minds-biting-elbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/06\/absent-minds-biting-elbows.html","title":{"rendered":"‘absent minds’ \/ ‘patient spring’ \/ ‘biting elbows’<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are three of the images being considered for a chapbook entitled biting elbows<\/em>, a collaborative effort by Gerard Bellaart and myself resulting from a visit to his studio in Le Liboreau, France.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The techniques for making the images were “monotype” and “oil transfer.” Bellaart points out that most of Paul Klee<\/a>‘s later work was done in the oil transfer medium and that his use of the technique has “never been surpassed.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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