Klecksography
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| The result is achieved when one folds a paper in the middle on which [[ink blot]]s have been applied, resulting in [[symmetrical]] objects which can be interpreted as figurative representations. | The result is achieved when one folds a paper in the middle on which [[ink blot]]s have been applied, resulting in [[symmetrical]] objects which can be interpreted as figurative representations. | ||
| - | [[Justinus Kerner]] was a practitioner of klecksographies, he made a series to which he added little poems. In the field of [[psychological testing]], it became the basis of the [[Rorschach test]]. | + | [[Justinus Kerner]] was a practitioner of klecksographies, he made a series to which he added little poems. In the field of [[psychological testing]], this technique became the basis of the [[Rorschach test]]. |
| ==In the work of Justinus Kerner== | ==In the work of Justinus Kerner== | ||
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The German term Klecksographie (which literally translates as blob picture) refers to the representation of patterns and figures of colored blobs.
The result is achieved when one folds a paper in the middle on which ink blots have been applied, resulting in symmetrical objects which can be interpreted as figurative representations.
Justinus Kerner was a practitioner of klecksographies, he made a series to which he added little poems. In the field of psychological testing, this technique became the basis of the Rorschach test.
In the work of Justinus Kerner
- A scarcely less peculiar accomplishment unfolded itself in Kerner during the years of his increasing blindness, and which he playfully called Klecksographen, which may be translated as Blotto-graphs ; these were the fantastic duplicate shapes produced in the folds of papers from ink blots. This amusement became a source of poetical inspiration to him, he creating out of them whimsical forms, all manner of figures from the spirit-world, and giving to each a poetic description of a grave or humorous turn, according to the bent of his genius. A number of those Klecksographen were collected together by Kerner, and arranged in a scrap-book by him in 1857. The poetical descriptions illustrative of the designs being from his own hand, together with a preface describing their origin ; thus, the whole was prepared for publication. The difficulty of re-producing the Klecksographen, however, obliged the idea of their presentation to the public to be abandoned. An illustrated paper, Uber Land und Meer, in its number for May 25th, 1862, has given a paragraph from Theobald Kerner relating to the Klecksographen, together with several specimens engraved on wood. --Anna Mary Howitt Watts in Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation (1883)
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