Automatism
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Automatism
A technique of automatic expression, that is creating a work of art without conscious effort, thought or will.
Automatism/Automatic Writing/Drawing
Writing or drawing that is produced by unconscious free-association, and spontaneous action, rather than by rational, controlled thought and planning.
Automatism : A process of making mechanically, randomly, or by unconscious free association (rather than under the control of a conscious artist), ...
automatism Automatic or unconscious action. Employed by Surrealist writers and artists to allow unconscious ideas and feelings to be expressed.
AUTOMATISM - Creation of a work of art randomly or mechanically, rather than by conscious design. Joan Miró is probably the best known artist of this genre.
Automatism was a more productive vehicle for the Surrealist painters. Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky, and Max Ernst, in particular, ...
Automatism:- The process of yielding oneself to instinctive motions of the hands after establishing a set of conditions within which a work is to be carried out. Return to top ...
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought.
Also see automatism, Fluxus, installation, readymade, ugly, and vandalism.
anti-authoritarian - Showing opposition to obeying authority, and favoring individual freedom.
Psychic Automatism was first used by the Dada artists, adopted by the Surrealists, and now appropriated by the Abstract Expressionists.
Other influences on his dripping technique include the Mexican muralists and also Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear.
Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early '20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious.
"It soon became apparent, however, that there was an inherent contradiction in Dalí's approach between what he himself described as 'critical paranoia' - which lent itself to systematic interpretation - and the element of automatism upon which his ...
Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought.
The leading exemplars of this type of abstract surrealism were Jean Arp and Joan Miro, neither of whom - as their many preparatory sketches confirm - relied on the Surrealist technique of automatism.
Artists used spontaneous techniques based on the "free association" concept, also called automatism, in which conscious control was surrendered to the unconscious mind. .
Surrealism: Pure psychic automatism by which one expresses verbally or in writing or by any other method "the true functioning of the mind".
It was coined in 1917, but was really given birth by the French poet André Breton in 1924 when he defined it as "pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express..... the true function of thought.
Automatism - Automatism is an activity, faculty and quality that is automatic, involuntary spontaneous, unthinking and without conscious control ...more info ...
A movement in literature and the visual arts that developed in the mid 1920s and remained strong until the mid 1940s, growing out of Dada and automatism.
Automatisme psychique pur par lequel on se propose d'exprimer [...] le fonctionnement réel de la pensée. Dictée de la pensée, en l'absence de tout contrõle exercé par la raison, en dehors de toute préoccupation esthétique ou morale.
ENCYCL. Philos.
By the Thirties, Surrealist painting had moved toward the arena of dreams for inspiration and relied less on the ideas of automatism that had marked the beginning of the movement.
When Mathieu resolved to exhibit the works of these painters, he incorporated his own approach as an artist, which was at once calligraphic and impulsive, within a European trend inspired by Surrealist automatism and the psychology of the unconscious.
Elements of organic Surrealism are evident in the work of sculptor Richard Heinrich while Argentine artist Catalina Chervin makes drawings influenced by the ideas of psychological portraiture and of automatism.
 See also: Movement, Painting, Realism, Surrealism, Expression
  
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