Surrealist automatism

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 as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz http://www.autonomedia.org/surrealistsubversions/review.html.

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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.

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"Pure psychic automatism" was how Andr? Breton, surrealism's founder, defined surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement.

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In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault wrote the first automatic book, Les Champs Magn?tiques while The Automatic Message was one of Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism.

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In the 1940s and 1950s the Canadian group called Les Automatistes pursued creative work (chiefly painting) based on surrealist principles.

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Some surrealists write automatic mathematics or equations.

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