Sentences with phrase «by psychic automatism»
They were influenced by European modernism and by Surrealism, which showed them how to break free of their conscious mind and connect with their subconscious by psychic automatism, leading to doodling and free gestural, improvisatory artworks.
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Fox reframes the subjective, subconscious, psychic phenomena of Automatism, placing it at the center of an objectively - constructed painting process, to be performed by an adventitiously - named alter - identity: «Tracy Volkswagen».
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.»
Aside from these two artists, there were other painters who tried to create their own breakthroughs including the «pure psychic automatism» by Andre Breton, and the drip technique by Pollock.
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.