Fumism or fumisme is a conditionally decadent movement in Parisian art that existed from the late 1870s to the first quarter of the 20th century. Fumism can be characterized as ″the art of blowing smo
Alphonse Allais, ″Pimps still in their prime, bellies in the grass, drink absinthe″ ('Les Arts incohérents, 1884)
Eugène Bataille, «La Gioconda with a Pipe» (1883)
Alphonse Allais. ″Funeral march composed for the funeral of a great deaf man″, 1883
The Incoherents was a short-lived French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882. In the movement's satirical irreverence, it anticipated many of the art techniques an
Fumism
…partially absorbed and then replaced the former amorphous Hydropaths. The ideas of the early hydropathists were continued by the historic exhibitions of the Arts Incohérents by Jules Lévy, the first of which took place in October 1882. Many hydropathists and fumists, including Alphonse Allais and Eugène Bataille, showed…
Exposition Universelle des Arts Incohérents, Jules Chéret
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