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[[Image:Masson automatic drawing.jpg|thumb|[[André Masson]]. Automatic Drawing. (1924). Ink on paper, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8" (23.5 x 20.6 cm). [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York.]] |
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'''Automatic drawing''' (distinguished from [[mediumistic automatism|drawn expression of mediums]]) was developed by the [[surrealist]]s, as a means of expressing the [[subconscious]]. In [[surrealist automatism|automatic]] [[drawing]], the [[hand]] is allowed to move '[[random]]ly' across the paper. In applying [[chance]] and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of [[rationality|rational control]]. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the [[Psyche (psychology)|psyche]], which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by some [[Spiritualist Church|Spiritualists]] to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing whilst physically taking control of the medium's body. |
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Automatic drawing was pioneered by [[André Masson]]. [[Artist]]s who practised automatic drawing include [[Joan Miró]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Jean Arp]] and [[André Breton]]. The technique was transferred to [[painting]] (as seen in Miró's paintings which often started out as automatic drawings), and has been adapted to other media; there have even been [[automatism and the computer|automatic "drawings" in computer graphics]]. [[Pablo Picasso]] was also thought to have expressed a type of automatic drawing in his later work, and particularly in his etchings and lithographic suites of the 1960s. |
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Most of the surrealists' automatic drawings were [[illusion]]istic, or more precisely, they developed into such drawings when representational forms seemed to suggest themselves. A group of [[French Canadian|French-Canadian]] artists, [[les Automatistes]], abandoned any trace of [[Representation (arts)|representation]] in their use of automatic drawing. This is perhaps a more pure form of automatic drawing since it can be almost entirely involuntary — to develop a representational form requires the [[conscious mind]] to take over the process of drawing, unless it is entirely [[accident]]al and thus incidental. ([[Romania|Romanian]] surrealists claimed to have taken this purity even farther with the development of what they called "[[surautomatism|surautomatic]]" methods, one of which is [[entoptic graphomania]], in which the impurities in the paper itself are supposed to define the drawing.) |
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Automatic drawing is also seen as a form of "channeling" where the hand is guided by a consciousness not of one's own. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/322.html An automatic drawing] by [[Jean Arp]] |
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*[http://www.biroco.com/automatic.htm ''What is an automatic drawing?''] |
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[[Category:Surrealist techniques]] |
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