automatist
- a word derived from automatism.
- a word derived from automatize.
Example Sentences
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The usual components include angst-free Abstract Expressionist brushwork, bits of popular advertising imagery, Surrealist automatist scribbles, spray-can vapor trails reminiscent of graffiti art and, at times, composite images built on the computer.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2015
The British artist Eileen Agar adds an automatist figure to a large photograph of a nude woman in a 1939 work that presages Sigmar Polke.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013
In this he paralleled several of his contemporaries, most prominently Jackson Pollock with whom he and Gerome Kamrowski would collaborate on a dark, drippy automatist painting in 1940-41.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2012
Pollock in particular borrowed the surrealists' "automatist" technique of letting the unconscious direct the brush.
From Time Magazine Archive
The writing generally resembles the ordinary handwriting of the agent, but there are sometimes marked differences, and the same automatist may employ two or three distinct handwritings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
