While the tradition of drawing games has been around a long time, French Surrealist André Breton and his group of artsy friends are credited with making Exquisite Corpse popular in the 1920s. They ...

If you have a blank sketchbook lying around, “one weird trick” from the Surrealists can turn any social gathering into a collaborative art session. Instead of sequestering yourself at home with your ...

In this playful and fun filled exhibition member of the community collaborated in the making of Exquisite Corpse drawings. Exquisite Corpse is a game in which a participant makes a drawing on a sheet ...

Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture with only limited knowledge of the other players ...

TikTokers are playing the "exquisite corpse" game that was beloved by Surrealists. (graphic Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Who remembers playing Exquisite Corpse as an icebreaker during arts and ...

In the early 20th Century, bored Surrealists created a parlor game where one would draw part of a figure, fold paper so only a bit is shown, then pass it to the next person to continue. In this way a ...

Rest assured, we’re not talking about dead people. Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, wrote the first episode of a children’s book and passed it on to a group ...

In the early 1920s, André Breton used the phrase “pure psychic automatism” to describe a particular methodology employed by members of an avant-garde movement known as surrealism. Over 100 years later ...

The phrase "exquisite corpse" originates from a surrealist game in which sentences were created by a group of people, each person not knowing what the previous words were. In this WAD, each of the 12 ...