Sentences with phrase «surrealist psychic automatism»

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To explore and reveal the unconscious, Surrealists such as Joan Miro and Roberto Echuarren Matta developed a technique known as psychic automatism, a spontaneous expression of the unconscious through line.

Matta introduced him to the Surrealists» process of psychic automatism, spontaneous drawing or writing that flowed, unedited, from the artist's unconscious.

In 1940 Motherwell joined them in the workshop of Kurt Seligmann in New York where he studied etching and first began to adopt the surrealist's technique of psychic automatism, an artistic strategy where chance and accident is allowed to dictate the structure of a composition freed from rational control.

They show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that paint in a form of psychic improvisation akin to the automatism of the Surrealists, with a similar intent of expressing the force of the creative unconscious in art.

Gorky centered his aesthetic on a hidden but predefined subject matter, which he transformed through psychic metamorphosis (using surrealist automatism).

This is a typically surrealist application of «psychic automatism.

Although it was the surrealist artists who helped to legitimize the unconscious as a subject for Pollock, as early as 1942, he already seems to have begun using psychic automatism in a wholly different way.

Grounded by Motherwell in the principles of psychic automatism, deriving from the Surrealists, Thomas sought to paint in a free and fresh way, as if form and color were autonomously materializing from her brush.