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.
Not exact matches
His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924,
in which he defined surrealism as «pure
psychic automatism».
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.»
But Arp worked
in a more radical spirit of
psychic automatism.
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 contro
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 contro
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 contro
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.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
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.
Neoplasticty is
in the movement of
psychic automatism, which gives priority to the process, emphasizing impulse over premeditated composition.
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.