Wikipedia: Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novak in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage is Jirí Kolar.In his lifetime, Kolar acquired a reputation as one of the most inventive 20th-century Czech artists. A member of Group 42 and the first Czech Group of Experimental Poetry, he assisted in the development of the collage techniques of froissage and confrontage. During that time, writing poems and crumpling up pieces of paper were considered subversive activities and were discouraged by the then-powerful Communist regime. Kolar endured harassment and imprisonment, and eventually emigrated to France, where he was finally able to attain international renown for his work.Froissage is a unique art in which the contours of a crumpled piece of paper are used to create a drawing. Currently on display in a small gallery at the French Institute, Kolar's froissages incorporate previously existing 17th-century French drawings to form more modern, abstract pictures. The results occasionally can be likened to early Cubist efforts to capture multiple motions and images within a single frame.Wikipedia (French): Ladislas Kijno (born 27 June 1921 in Warsaw and died 27 November 2012 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ), is a painter French . He settled in 1925 in a small town in the Pas-de-Calais named Nœux-les-Mines . He will live, since the years 1980 , in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , near Paris , and will die in this place thirty years later.After a childhood in modest circumstances, he studied philosophy, including Jean Grenier , and then attended the workshop Germaine Richier in the post-World War II. Based in Paris since the late 1950s, Ladislas Kijno has, over the decades, multiplied sprays paint and has become one of the masters of the said technical crease . His meeting with Louis Aragon and Ponge in 1943 has also led to many work in collaboration with poets. Countless tributes inhabit his creations: Nicolas de Stael , Nelson Mandela , Galileo and Gagarin ; but the fighting alongside the Algerian and Vietnamese peoples but Tahiti, China, Easter Island.He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1980 . In the 1990s, he worked in the pink of the portal of Notre-Dame de la Treille in Lille . It will be completed nine years later ... In 1991 , an issue of the journal The Amateur Art was partly devoted to it, especially with a meeting with Jean-Pierre Thiollet , entitled "Ladislas Kijno:" I am a monk of Art! " ". In 1996 Ladislas Kijno suggests Vilnet Bishop, Bishop of Lille, the idea to dedicate this "modern" part of the crypt in an exhibition space of contemporary works on the theme of the Passion of Christ. Seven years later, the contemporary sacred art center is created, with the support of the Regional Council and the Association for the Renovation of the originally Treille site of the current facade, welcoming approximately fifty works from the Collection Delaine. Opened December 7, 2003, following the official launch of "Lille 2004, European Capital of Culture" and as part of the celebration - the anniversary - 90 years of the diocese of Lille, he accueilllera some big names of contemporary art : Georg Baselitz , Lucio Fontana , Robert Combas , Kijno or Andy Warhol .In 2005 appeared The Phoenicia Cradle , a long poem of Francis Xavier in which the painter proposed two versions entwined in the verses (one close to the naive style, the other more air and sister of Japanese calligraphy). Monumental book printed on vellum Johannot, the Italian size (250 × 330) at 70 numbered copies, Jean-Pierre Huguet Publisher, 2005. In its case, it also houses an original carborundum etching conducted by Pasnic workshop and signed in felt black. Kijno's work was the subject of several films, especially Gerard Szabatura Dominik Rimbault Daniel Count Raoul Sangla, Agostini and Georges Marti; and has been featured many times on TV and radio by Micheline Sandrel Michel Lancelot, Jacques Chancel, YVES MOUROUSI Jean Bertho, Bruno Vouters and Jose Artur ... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.