Sentences with phrase «psychic automatism»

The method of psychic automatism, or «artful scribbling,» as Mr. Motherwell came to call it, involved a kind of free association in which the pen or brush was allowed to wander on a surface, undirected by the conscious mind.

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.

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.

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.

Cubism never interested Pollock, but Krasner's profound acknowledgement of his obsession with Surrealist psychic automatism proved to be crucial in his development.

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.

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

His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».

Introducing the notion of intuitive art and automatism in his Surrealist Manifesto, he defined the movement as «psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought.»

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

Yet Picasso exhibited Cubist works at the first Surrealist group exhibition in 1925; the concept of «psychic automatism in its pure state» defined in the Manifeste du surréalisme never appealed to him entirely.

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.»

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

«He was the last artist fully committed to the methodology of Surrealism and psychic automatism, which he developed in a carefully thought - out way.»

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.

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

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.

Post Surrealism, which Feitelson and Lundeberg originally termed New (or Subjective) Classicism in their eponymous 1934 manifesto, was a direct response to André Breton's philosophy, which encouraged the expression of what he called «psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought.

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.