Automatism
Strategies of writing or creating art that aimed to access the unconscious mind. The Surrealists, in particular, experimented with automatist techniques of writing, drawing, and painting.
Featured Works
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William Anastasi
1987
Condors and Carrion (Condors y carroña)
Roberto Matta
1941
Untitled (Automatic Drawing)
Jean (Hans) Arp
1917–18, dated 1916
Automatic Drawing
André Masson
(1924)
Summation
Arshile Gorky
1947
The Birth of the World
Joan Miró
Montroig, late summer-fall 1925
Milky Way
Janet Sobel
1945