Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) 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. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by some Spritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing whilst physically taking control of the mediums body. For other meanings of medium, see medium (disambiguation). ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... Subconscious may refer to: that which is subliminal to consciousness the underlying consciousness see subconsciousness. ... Surrealist automatism is spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. ... EDITED by KUshal--202. ... Alternate meanings: Hand (disambiguation) A human left hand The hand (med. ... In ordinary language, the word random is used to express apparent lack of purpose or cause. ... Chance can be used in any of the following contexts: Probability Luck Randomness Chance is also a 2002 movie starring Amber Benson. ... Psyche can refer to: In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person. ...

Automatic drawing was pioneered by André Masson. Artists 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 automatic "drawings" in computer graphics. Pablo Picasso was also thought to have expressed a type of automatic drawing; most especially in his later work, and particularly in his etchings and lithographic suites of the 1960s. British artist Gary J. Campbell (also records under the name Gary Space) has recently revived interest in this technique with his unconscious response drawings. Pedestal Table in the Studio, (1922) André-Aimé-René Masson (January 4, 1896 – October 28, 1987) was a French artist. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... Joan Miró Woman and Bird (Barcelona) Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ... Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 - June 7, 1966) was a sculptor, painter, and poet. ... André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... The computer, just like the typewriter, can be used to produce automatic writing and automatic poetry. ... Young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ...

Most of the surrealist's automatic drawings were illusionistic, or more precisely, they developed into such drawings when representational forms seemed to suggest themselves. A group of French-Canadian artists, les Automatistes, abandoned any trace of 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 accidental and thus incidental. (Romanian surrealists claimed to have taken this purity even farther with the development of what they called "surautomatic" methods, one of which is entoptic graphomania, in which the impurities in the paper itself are supposed to define the drawing.) An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. ... French Canadian is a term that has several different connotations. ... Les Automatistes were a group of Quebecois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. ... In mathematics, a group representation is a way of viewing a group in some more concrete way. ... Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. ... Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking or purporting to take automatism to its most absurd limits. ... Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ...

See also

• Surrealist techniques
• Surrealist automatism

Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ... Surrealist automatism is spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. ...

External links

• Automatic Drawing by Jean Arp
• Occult-Lore.com > Phenomena > Powers
• What is an automatic drawing?