Sentences with phrase «of psychic automatism»

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.

Neoplasticty is in the movement of psychic automatism, which gives priority to the process, emphasizing impulse over premeditated composition.

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.

But Arp worked in a more radical spirit of psychic automatism.

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

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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».

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.

25 The very term «psychic automatism» naturally calls to mind the psychoanalytic practice of free association.

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».

Hoyland is not concerned with self - exploration in terms of psychic or abstract automatism, but he is intent upon refurbishing and extending the possibilities of basic pictorial principles.

Uninterested in the figurative subject matter or the political implications of Surrealism, whose aim was to effect revolution, he nevertheless took to its theory of «psychic automatism,» which accorded with his feeling for Freudian psychoanalysis and the work of the French Symbolist poets.

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.»

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.

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.»

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.

This is a typically surrealist application of «psychic automatism.

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.