automatism
noun
the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action.
automatist
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a word derived from
automatism.
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a word derived from
automatize.
Example Sentences
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And nothing is quite as rampant as the unhinged geometric patterns, defined first by automatist drawing and then by divots painted with contrasting colors, which give the best works a writhing, billowing energy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 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
Mrs. Verrall is a celebrated "automatist"; and her "cross-correspondence" occupy a whole volume of the Proceedings.
From The Unknown Guest by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
