A 1946 drawing in ink and watercolor shows Pollock experimenting with Surrealist automatism, seemingly with American Indian pictographs in mind, while two works from 1951 in ink on rice paper show him extending his attention to include Chinese calligraphy.
And then, with an automatism that should probably embarrass me by now, they appear in the voice of the narration as well.
Those here alternate between impatient riffs on Picasso and schematic renderings of natural forms, including grass, all the while flirting with Surrealist automatism.
Another patient had no spreading convulsions during the monitoring period but one isolated ictal epileptic event in the electrocorticography characterized by a 3 /s spike-and-wave pattern and associated with oral automatisms.
"A Garden" is strange, because it combines the soft, rounded shapes of ballet with something like automatism.
The restless nature of Surrealist drawing — from hyper-realism to free-form automatism, with the collaborative exquisite corpse technique falling somewhere in between — is well established.
Each of the scales was able to discriminate between different groups for amputation cause, walking distance, mobility device use, and automatism, with each having varying strength related to relative precision.
His multidimensional imaginary world was fraught with violent conflict and agitated movement; throughout his life Matta combined the Surrealists' interest in psychic automatism with a predilection for vaguely figural elements caught in states of flux and crisis.
Above all, Gutai combined Dada's irreverence and a greatly magnified version of automatism with elements that are innately Japanese: the flying gestures of sumi ink-painting, the random flaws so valued in the country's ceramics tradition, the reverence for materials in themselves.
The drawings themselves draw upon the Surrealist concept of automatism, with Seidel distilling architectural or scientific concepts in this case, levels of measurement in the Richter scale, which measures the energy of an earthquake, for example—into visuals.
