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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It brings us full circle, back to Dalí’s automatist outburst.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013
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
In the long run, the other technique of "automatist" surrealism proved more revolutionary and durable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is a "control," who purports to be speaking; and all the resources of the automatist, including his or her trance-faculty of telepathy are called into play in building this fictitious personage out plausibly.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
