Sentences with phrase «as psychic automatism»
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.
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His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».
Early in his career, he was attracted to Surrealist notions of tapping into the unconscious as a source of imagery, a method called «psychic automatism.»
In the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) Breton defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism by which one intends to express verbally, in writing or by other method, the real functioning of the mind.»
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.
The method called psychic automatism, or artfull scribbling as Robert Motherwell named it, represents a free movement and wandering of brushes and pens over the surfaces, in which the artist allows the unconscious impulse to have the major role.