Below is a glossary article post in the category A which discusses the explanation of the meaning, definition and meaning of the acronym, term, jargon, or termonology of Automatism based on summaries from various types of sources (references) that are relevant, related, and trustworthy.
Understanding Automatism
So, what is actually meant by Automatism?
In art, automaticme refers to creating art without conscious thinking, accessing material from unconscious thoughts as part of the creative process.
Explanation of Automatism
Automatically as a term borrowed from physiology, where it describes body movements that are not consciously controlled like breathing or walking through. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalyst uses free associations and drawing or writing automatically to explore unconscious thoughts from their patients.
The idea of Freud greatly influenced French poet André Breton who launched the surrealist movement in 1924 with the publication of manifesto surrealism. In manifesto, Breton defines surrealism as
‘Automatically Pure Psychic … Dictation of thought without all the controls carried out for reasons and beyond all moral or aesthetic problems’.
Breton and others produce the earliest examples of automatically in their automatic writing, which aims to write as quickly as possible without consciously intervening to guide the hand.
Surrealist collage, composing images that are cut off from magazines, product catalogs, book illustrations and other sources, discovered by Max Ernst, and is the first form of automaticism in visual art. Ernst also uses frottage (rubbing) and grattage (scraping) to make the texture of opportunities in his work. Various forms of images and paintings are automatically developed by artists such as Joan Miro, Andre Masson and Ernst.
Automatically then plays several parts in Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionism and others and is an important element in the European Movement for Arte Nucleare.
While the term automaticme is specifically associated with the twentieth century artists, and especially surrealism, previous artists such as Alexander Cozens used several elements of opportunities to make works, while others were reported to use visionary or trance countries.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix A, as well as terms associated with A.
Meaning of Automatism in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Automatism.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Otomatisisme (Indonesian), AUTHORISM (Java), and Mimitérisme in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Automatisme.
Closing
OK, above there is the discussion and explanation of what is the meaning of Automatism.
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix A. This article wasupdated in Dec of 2025.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=automatism
- https://www.britannica.com/search?query=automatism
- View example images of automatism through Google here
- View example images of automatism on Bing here
- View example images of automatism on Yandex here
