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  Surrealist techniques - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This method of "indecipherable writing" (see below) was supposedly an example of "surautomatism," the controversial theory put forward by Trost and Gherashim Luca in which surrealist methods would be practiced that "went beyond" automatism.
The movement of liquid down a vertical surface is, as the name suggests, a technique, invented by surrealists from Romania and said by them to be surautomatic and a form of indecipherable writing, of making pictures by dripping or allowing to flow some form of liquid down a vertical surface.
Surautomatism is any theory or act of taking automatism to its most absurd limits.
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 parsemage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The results are achieved by the cutting away of parts of images to encourage a new image, by means of a pair of scissors or any other manipulative sharpened instrument (see also Excavations).
In addition to its obvious meaning of writing that is illegibile or for whatever other reason cannot be made out by the reader, indecipherable writing refers to a set of automatic techniques developed by Romanian surrealists, falling under the heading of surautomatism.
The movement of liquid down a vertical surface is, as the name suggests, a technique, invented by surrealists from Romania and said by them to be surautomatic and a form of indecipherable writing (see above), of making pictures by dripping or allowing to flow some form of liquid down a vertical surface.
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 Wikipedia: Writing
Sometimes writing is done in invisible ink that can be later decoded, if the message is intended to be secret and only for the recipient or recipients.
Rarely, "writing" is used to refer to the making of marks using various methods, that is not, strictly speaking, writing, as in the "indecipherable writing" (a type of surautomatism) developed by the Romanian surrealists; "indecipherable writing" is actually more akin to what would commonly be described as drawing or painting than writing.
The borderline between prehistory and history is usually taken to be the time from when we have written records.
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 Surautomatism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In their 1945 statement "Dialectic of Dialectic," Romanian surrealists Gherashim Luca and Dolfi Trost wrote, "We have returned to the problem of knowledge through images...
In generally accepting until now pictorial reproductive means, surrealist painting will find that the way to its blossoming lies in the absurd use of aplastic, objective and entirely non-artistic procedures." In this statement is the core of surautomatist theory.
The name surautomatism suggests a "going beyond" automatism, but whether surautomatism is anything but just a group methods by which surrealist automatism is practiced is controversial.
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 Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist...
"Surautomatism" is any theory or act in practice of surrealist surrealist creative production creative production taking or purporting to take automatism automatism to its most absurd limits.
In their 1945 1945 statement "Dialectic of Dialectic," Romania Romanian surrealists Gherashim Luca Gherashim Luca and Dolfi Trost Dolfi Trost wrote, "We have returned to the problem of knowledge through images...
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 Indecipherable writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Indecipherable writing refers to a set of surrealist and automatic techniques developed by Romanian surrealists, falling under the heading of surautomatism.
Examples include entopic graphomania and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface.
I must have given him the letter myself, for I have no recollection of making me shyly and tentatively welcome.
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 Surautomatism - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Surautomatism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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In generally accepting until now pictorial reproductive means, surrealist painting will find that the way to its blossoming lies in the absurd use of aplastic, objective and entirely non-artistic procedures.
The name surautomatism suggests "going beyond" automatism, but whether surautomatism is anything but a group of methods by which surrealist automatism is practiced is controversial.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Surautomatism.html   (228 words)

  
 Surautomatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking, or purporting to take, automatism to its most absurd limits.
Surautomatism includes cubomania, entopic graphomania and various types of what the Romanian surrealists called "indecipherable writing".
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 Surrealist automatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1940s and 1950s the Canadian group called Les Automatistes pursued creative work (chiefly painting) based on surrealist principles.
Some Romanian surrealists invented a number of surrealist techniques (such as cubomania, entopic graphomania, and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface) that purported to take automatism to an absurd point, and the name given, "surautomatism", implies that the methods "go beyond" automatism, but this position is controversial.
This page was last modified 20:17, 22 September 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surrealist_automatism   (232 words)

  
 problem of knowledge - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
You can look up the words in the phrase individually using these links: problem of knowledge
Reverse dictionary results: book, knowledge_transfer, alfred_ayer, surautomatism, recondite, illuminate, more...
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