While French surrealist Yves Tanguy used the decalcomania technique in his 1936 works Paysage I and Paysage II, the production of decalcomanias has not been confined to art.
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At Yale University, fingerpaint decalcomanias have been analyzed for their tendency to generate fractals when the process is repeated several times on the same paper.
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From landscape motifs to stoic pictorial symbols and abstract paintings, the technique here is combined with the scrape of the spatula in a precise manner, contrary to the work of surrealist Óscar Domínguez, who referred to his practice as decalcomanias “with no preconceived object.”
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By around 1875, decalcomania designs printed in colored glazes were being applied to porcelain, an extension of transfer printing that had been developed in England since the late 18th century.
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