Automatism:

Gateway to the Subconscious

MindMiro Birth of the World (stretched)

http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/paint_sculpt/blowups/paint_sculpt_014.html

Presentation by A. A. Schorsch

au·tom·a·tism [ aw tómmətìzəm ]

noun 

4. painting literature artistic method: an artistic approach, associated with the surrealists, in which the painter or writer empties the mind and allows the unconscious to direct the work

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Automatism involves painting shapes and colors as they automatically come to the artist’s mind; consisted of allowing the hand to wander across the canvas surface without any interference from the conscious mind. The resulting marks, it was thought, would not be random or meaningless, but would be guided at every point by the functioning of the artist’s unconscious mind, and not by rational thought or artistic training.

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Automatism

Automatic Drawing

Automatic drawing was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move 'randomly' across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed.

Automatic drawing was pioneered by André Masson. Artists who practiced 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 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_automatism

André Masson

(French 1896-1987) 

Moon Sun1938

Color lithograph 10" x 13 1/2" 

http://www.fine-art.com/Lyceum/ModMasters/Masson/

The Seeded Earth

1942

André Masson

"Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin painting, and, as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself. . . . The first stage is free, unconscious. The second stage is carefully calculated."

~Joan Miró

http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/paint_sculpt/blowups/paint_sculpt_014.html

Characters of the Nighthttp://www.home-school.com/Mall/Artext/miro-big.jpg

JOAN MIRÒ(Spanish 1893 - 1983) 

William BaziotesAmerican (1912-1963)

Primeval Landscape1953 (age 41)

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Dorothea TanningTo The Rescue

Oil on Canvas, 1965

The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections/recent/200615.html

Dorothea Tanning

Heartless

Oil on Canvas, 1980 http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections/recent/200615.html

Salvador Dali

The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory

Oil on Canvas, 1952-54, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_02.jpg

Salvador Dali

The Three Sphinxes Of Bikini

Oil 1947 http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1947_04.jpg

Salvador Dali

Rock Figure After the Head of Christ in the Pieta of Palestrina by Michelangelo

Oil 1982 http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1982_36.jpg

Salvador DaliApparition Of Venus

Oil on Canvas, 1952-54

The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_02.jpg

Galatea of the SpheresOil on Canvas

1952

Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres

http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_03.jpg

Salvador Dali(Spanish 1904 - 1989) 

Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion (mythology).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea

The previous year, Dalí had written his Mystical Manifesto, where he pronounced a new component of his universe, This double image of Gala combines the stimuli of spirituality and science, two recurrent obsessions in Dali's works dated after the Second World War.

http://www.dali-gallery.com/html/galleries/painting19.htm

Salvador Dali

Birth of a Divinity

Oil 1960http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1960_01.jpg

Salvador Dali

Raphaelesque Head Exploding

Oil 1951

http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1951_02.jpg

Salvador Dali

Study for the Head of the Virgin

Pencil, Ink, & Gouache 1952http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_17.jpg

Salvador Dali

Nuclear Head of an Angel

Black Ink & Sepia Pencil

1952http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_16.jpghttp://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_16.jpg

Salvador Dali

Head of a Gray Angel

1952-54http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1952_09.jpg

Salvador Dali

Madonna and Particle Child Nuclear Drawing

BallPoint, 1954

http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1954_18.jpg

Salvador Dali

The Wheelbarrows

Wash & Pencil 1951http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1951_03.jpg

Salvador Dali

Galatée

Oil, 1954http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/

works/1954_20.jpg

Salvador Dali

Celestial Coronation

Circa1951

Gouache & Collagehttp://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/

1951_11.jpg

Salvador Dali

Figure Study for William Tell

Ink , 1932http://www.dali-gallery.com/images/works/1932_26.jpg

Lori Nozick

Meggido

Charcoal 2000http://www.lnozickart.com/d2_meggido.htm

Lori Nozick

Tree House

Charcoal 1998 http://www.lnozickart.com/d6_treehouse.htm

Lori Nozick

Meggido

Charcoal, Oil Stick 2000http://www.lnozickart.com/d3_dockwalk.htm

Danielle Vennard

Dann Animal Acts V5

Charcoal Tracing Paper 2006

http://www.dzartworks.com/DZ%20Drawings.htm

Jeff Bixler

Self-Portrait, Pt. IV

Charcoalhttp://www.baz-net.com/portfolio/pages/eye

%20charcoal.htm

Jeff Bixler

Self-Portrait, Pt. II

Charcoalhttp://www.baz-net.com/portfolio/pages/nose

%20charcoal.htm

Jeff Bixler

Self-Portrait, Pt. III

Charcoalhttp://www.baz-net.com/portfolio/pages/hands

%20charcoal.htm

Cari Campbell

Grade: High School

Charcoal http://panthers.k12.ar.us/High_School/Departments/Art/StudentPortfolios/2005/Cari_Campbell/CariC_charcoal04.jpg

Amanda Jansen

Mourning Night

Charcoal 2007

6th Grade

Tim Warren

Charcoal 2007

6th Grade

View of Louise Bourgeois's sculpture Spider from the roof of the Winter Palace in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/13/hm13_2_001_1.html

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach.

~Louise Bourgeois

(Born 1911- French-born American sculptor, painter, and graphic artist)

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