Wolfgang Paalen, Untitled (automatic drawing), circa 1950 Austrian surrealist Wolfgang Paalen is one of the great innovators of modern art. He invented the technique of fumage (painting with smoke), incorporated cutting-edge scientific theories and the forms of indigenous American art into the visual dialogue of his time, powerfully influenced American postwar painters, and edited one of the most influential art journals of the 20th century (Dyn). For more: Online: Paalen-Archiv i
