Loplop

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Max Ernst. Loplop Introduces Loplop. 1930. Oil and various materials on wood. 100 x 180 cm. Private collection.
Max Ernst. Loplop Introduces Loplop. 1930. Oil and various materials on wood. 100 x 180 cm. Private collection.

Loplop is the name of bird/birdlike character featured in prints, collages and paintings by artist Max Ernst. Loplop was an alter ego which Ernst developed and functioned as a familiar animal.

Loplop first appeared in Ernst's collage-novels La Femme 100 TĂȘtes and Une Semaine de BontĂ© in the role of a narrator and commentator.

Loplop is also a character in China Mieville's novel King Rat.

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