6345automatism (image-making process)TTen-USVocabulário Colaborativo em Artes e Arquitetura active approved automatism (image-making process)Term that was appropriated first by the Surrealists from physiology and psychiatry, and later applied to spontaneous writing, drawing, and painting. Automatism in the visual arts includes techniques in other movements as well, such as Abstract Expressionism and others, referring generally to manual creation techniques involving chance or psychological experiences.

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