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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Even more remarkable, and less familiar, are large drawings from 1966 notable especially for their skeins of automatist drawing in pencil, crayon and ballpoint.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 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
It brings us full circle, back to Dalí’s automatist outburst.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013
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
