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automatismMethod of painting or drawing in which conscious control over the movement of the hand is suppressed so that the subconscious mind may take over. For some Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, the automatic process encompassed the entire process of composition. The Surrealists, having once achieved an interesting image or form by automatic or chance means, exploited the technique with fully conscious purpose. See also Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Surrealism. |
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| While he subscribes to the received wisdom that Twombly's beginnings must be seen as a dialogue with Jackson Pollock, hovering between the game preserves of automatism and industrialized spectacle, Leeman also recognizes the importance of Pollock's European counterparts--from Dubuffet to Fautrier, from Burri and Fontana to Manzoni. Myth two--the idea of automatism and the miraculous power of market relations in resolving all problems of social development, including the shaping of the spiritual factor. According to modernist poet Andre Breton, Surrealism works as a "purely psychic automatism through which we undertake to express, in words, writing, or any other activity, the actual functioning of thought, thought dictated apart from any control by reason and any aesthetic or moral consideration. |
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