Surrealist automatism
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. Automatism in Surrealism has taken on many forms, from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz [1].
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired. Ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of surrealist automatic messages.
“Pure psychic automatism” was how André Breton, surrealism’s founder, defined surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement.
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