Sentences with phrase «automatic drawing practice»

If we can say that Andre Masson was a pioneer of the automatic drawing practice, then Austin Osman Spare was the main theoretician of this method.

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Inspired by time spent in New York City and Maine, Essenhigh developed her signature use of line by practicing automatic drawing.
As a young artist in 1940s New York, Robert Motherwell was introduced by the French Surrealists to the practice of «spontaneous» or «automatic» drawing, where the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper as a means to expressing the subconscious.
Although he does not focus his practice on automatic drawing per se, his approach looks like a product of influence of automatism.
Theory of art puts French painter André - Aimé - René Masson at the place of a pioneer of automatic drawing; however, it should also be mentioned that the English artist Austin Osman Spare developed the same practice at the same time.
A clearly defined group by the mid-1940s, they gained the name Automatistes from an exhibition in 1947, the name alluding both to the freedom of gestural abstract painting and to the longstanding surrealist practice of automatic writing and drawing.
She was particularly drawn to the Surrealist practice of automatism and by the late 1930s had developed her own unique method of constructing automatic collages.
His interest at that time was in Byzantine and Renaissance art and Romanesque architecture as well as in the Surrealist movement's practice of automatic drawing, which relied on spontaneity and chance.
A departure from his signature drip paintings, Fox's Autonomic (Tracy Volkswagen) is a contemporary conceptual twist on the automatic drawing and painting practices associated with Dada and Surrealism.
Though he maintained his freedom, experimenting with other movements such as Expressionism and Color Field painting and never truly becoming a member of the Surrealist group, Miró was among the first to incorporate automatic drawing into his practice.
Action was a way to evoke the primeval and an archetypal expression, and automatic painting and drawing techniques had previously been practiced by Joan Miró and André Masson.
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