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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 a many forms, from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such and the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz [1]. Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. ... Drawing is a means of making an image, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques. ... Aesthetics is another meaning for visual style, such examples are Realism , Documentary realism, Psychological realism, Expressionism, and Surrealism // Aesthetics in History and Philosophy Thinkers and sages have pondered beauty and art all over the world for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independent philosophical discipline in the... ... Automatism is the practice or theory of the spontaneous production of words (speech or writing), drawing, painting or other creative production, or behavior in general, without conscious self-control or self-censorship. ... Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of André Breton, generally regarded as the founder of surrealism: beauty will be convulsive or not at all. ... For an article about Surrealist automatic writing go to Surrealist automatism. ... Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ...

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. For other meanings of medium, see medium (disambiguation). ... Reputed ghost of a monk. ...

"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. André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ...

In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault wrote the first automatic book, Les Champs Magnétiques while The Automatic Message was one of Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Philipe Soupault (August 2, 1897 – March 12, 1990) was writer involved with the surrealist and Dada art movements in Paris. ... Les Champs Magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) is a novel by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. ... The Automatic Message is a compilation of surrealist writing of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Philippe Soupault, amongst others. ...

In the 1940s and 1950s the Canadian group called Les Automatistes pursued creative work (chiefly painting) based on surrealist principles. // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Les Automatistes were a group of Quebecois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ...

Some surrealists write automatic mathematics or equations.

Surautomatism

Some Romanian surrealists invented a number of surrealist techniques (such as cubomania, entopic graphomania, and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface) that purported to take automatism to an absurd point, and the name given, "surautomatism", implies that the methods "go beyond" automatism, but this position is controversial. Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ... Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking or purporting to take automatism to its most absurd limits. ...

See also

• Surrealist techniques