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  Surrealist games - SourceryForge
Surrealist games, also called Surrealist techniques, are a bunch of more or less serious techniques that were devised to bring automatism into art, and enable unconscious creative processes by circumventing the conscious mind and it's planning capacities.
Entoptic graphomania is a surrealist and automatic method of drawing in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots.
Parsemage is a surrealist and automatic method in the visual arts invented by Ithell Colquhoun in which dust from charcoal or colored chalk is scattered on the surface of water and then skimmed off by passing a stiff paper or cardboard just under the water's surface.
sourceryforge.org /index.php/Surrealist_games   (2550 words)

  
  automatism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
Automatism may refer to: Automatism (medical), spontaneous verbal or motor behavior; Automatism (toxicology), forget you took your dose already; Mediumistic automatism...
automatism: technique first used by Surrealist painters and poets to express the creative force of the unconscious in art.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Automatic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 on 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 [1].
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Automatic   (306 words)

  
 Surrealist automatism - Definition, explanation
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which it was inspired.
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.
The surrealist practice of automatic drawing, originally performed with pencil or pen and paper, has also been adapted to mouse and monitor, and other automatic methods have also been either adapted from non-digital media, or invented specifically for the computer.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/su/surrealist_automatism.php   (329 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Surrealist automatism
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term was inspired.
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.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Surrealist_automatism   (293 words)

  
  Surrealist automatism
Automatism has taken a great many forms, from the automatic writing that was the initial automatism practiced by surrealism to later adapations to the computer.
Surrealist automatism is to be distinguished from mediumistic automatism, by which it was inspired: ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of its automatic messages.
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; the name "surautomatism" implies that the methods "go beyond" automatism but this position is controversial.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/su/surrealist_automatism.html   (236 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Surrealist automatism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surrealist automatism is spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
It is to be distinguished from mediumistic automatism, by which it was inspired: ghosts, spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of its automatic messages.
Some Romanian surrealists invented a number of surrealist methods (such as cubomania, entopic graphomania and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface) that purported to take automatism to an absurd point; the name "surautomatism implies that the methods "go beyond" automatism but this position is controversial.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/su/Surrealist_automatism   (180 words)

  
 Surrealist automatism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surrealist automatism is spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced withoutconscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
Surrealist automatism is to be distinguished from mediumistic automatism, by which it was inspired: ghosts,spirits or the like are not purported to be the source of its automatic messages.
Some Romanian surrealists invented a number of surrealisttechniques (such as cubomania, entopic graphomania, and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface) that purported totake automatism to an absurd point; the name " surautomatism " implies thatthe methods "go beyond" automatism but this position is controversial.
www.therfcc.org /surrealist-automatism-1189.html   (222 words)

  
 Contemporary Surrealism and the surrealist movement @ www.surrealcoconut.com
One of the advantages of automatic writing is that it has the interesting property of dissolving the various artificial barriers erected within the human psyche, tending to address the various alienations created by our terribly advanced society.
Thus, what is called surrealist art has no other goal than to liberate words, or more generally the signs, from the codes of utility or entertainment, in order to restore them as bearers of revelation of subjective reality and of the essential intersubjectivity of desire in the public mind.
Anything "surreal" or "surrealist" is something which purposefully challenges the narrow and stultifying conceptions of reality that are currently shaped by capitalist ideology and the sublimated ruins of Judaeo-Christian morality, and this challenge is often represented and/or manifested as a fusion of conscious and unconscious thought (automatism).
www.surrealcoconut.com /arch_site_2004.html   (1894 words)

  
 Automatic - Egold   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from which the term Automaticity also refers to the plasma membranes within the heart that egold have reduced permeability to potassium K but still allow passive transfer of sodium egold ions, allowing a net charge to build.
Surrealist automatism is different from mediumistic automatism, from egold which the term Automaticity also refers to the plasma membranes within the heart that have reduced permeability to potassium K but still allow passive transfer of sodium ions, allowing a net charge to build.
The machines were filled from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as "Sit On My Face "and "Killer Purses "performed at benefits for the bumpy ride on the rails, and state laws that prohibited alcoholic beverages from being sold by a machine.
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 Mythical Records - surrealist literature
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 and the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz [1].
To speak of the techniques of surrealist poetry is necessarily to speak of the theory behind their practice, a theory that is unique in literature because it transcends literature and art altogether and invades the domains of philosophy, psychology, and even politics.
First of all, if we adopt a surrealist viewpoint, then, as we have seen, art logically must be and naturally will tend to be surrealist, and thus be justifiable only in its ability to reveal the new, the "never seen," the parallel activity of thought and chance in consciousness.
www.mythicalrecords.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=377   (975 words)

  
 Fifth Estate review of Surrealist Subversions   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sakolsky illustrates how the Chicago Surrealist Group and its affiliates from coast to coast who compose the larger Surrealist Movement in the US have always had an organic, reciprocal relationship with not only workers' struggles and the anarchist movement but also a wide variety of heretical and libratory currents.
the surrealist practice of pure psychic automatism -- which dates back to 1919 -- was much more than a modern technical invention, for it quickly led to the recognition that entire cultures had methods of thought and communication that transcended the conscious...
The international surrealist movement continues to mobilize energies for anarchists and all oppressed peoples to overcome capitalist-hierarchical civilization, along with nuclear-armed, oil-hungry, murdering elites and their immobilizing cultural distractions.
www.autonomedia.org /surrealistsubversions/review.html   (977 words)

  
 Welcome to Surrealist.com - Surrealism, Surrealist & Surrealism Artist and Surrealist & Surrealism Art. A comprehensive ...
A history of surrealism, surreal art, and the artists involved in the surrealist art movement.
Sur - re - al - ism (n.) -(often l.c.) a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
The surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II.
www.surrealist.com   (183 words)

  
 Surrealism-USA
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont, is the first book in any language of writings by the many women who have taken part in organized surrealism from its origins to today.
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul Garon and Beth Garon (Da Capo, 1992), is a biography of this exceptional blueswoman: oral history and an analysis of her songs based in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and Black studies.
Surrealist Experiences:1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights by Penelope Rosemont (Black Swan Press, 2000) focuses on fortuitous encounters, including the author's adventures in the magnetic fields of "pure psychic automatism." The book collects articles and essays by Rosemont from surrealist journals throughout the world, plus several published now for the first time.
www.surrealistmovement-usa.org   (724 words)

  
 A history of surrealism. by: Stephen D. King - Surrealism, Surrealist & Surrealism Artist and Surrealist & Surrealism ...
A brilliant eccentric, he had become associated with surrealist in 1929 and had suggest a new means of achieving a fusion of the imaginary and the real ‘paranoiac-critical method’.
An international Surrealist exhibition was held in Mexico in 1940, in that same period France experienced mass exodus and collapse.
Their Diverse fate had two main consequences: the Surrealist exile gave new strength to the \American artistic group; and on the other the return of the exiled did not provide a opportunity for regrouping of the Surrealists after France was liberated.
www.surrealist.com /history.aspx   (1921 words)

  
 Contemporary Surrealism and the surrealist movement @ www.surrealcoconut.com
One of the advantages of automatic writing is that it has the interesting property of dissolving the various artificial barriers erected within the human psyche, tending to address the various alienations created by our terribly advanced society.
Thus, what is called surrealist art has no other goal than to liberate words, or more generally the signs, from the codes of utility or entertainment, in order to restore them as bearers of revelation of subjective reality and of the essential intersubjectivity of desire in the public mind.
Anything "surreal" or "surrealist" is something which purposefully challenges the narrow and stultifying conceptions of reality that are currently shaped by capitalist ideology and the sublimated ruins of Judaeo-Christian morality, and this challenge is often represented and/or manifested as a fusion of conscious and unconscious thought (automatism).
surrealcoconut.com /arch_site_2004.html   (1894 words)

  
 Surrealism, surrealism painting, surrealism history, surrealism artist, surrealism in art, surrealism collage, abstract ...
Surrealists diagnosis of the "problem" of the realism and capitalist civilisation is a restrictive overlay of false rationality, including social and academic convention, on the free functioning of the instinctual urges of the human mind.
Many Surrealist artists regarded their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, and Breton was explicit in his belief that Surrealism was first and foremost a revolutionary movement.
Masson's automatic drawings of 1923, are often used as a convenient point of difference, since these reflect the influence of the idea of the unconscious mind.
www.reviewpainting.com /surrealism.htm   (3863 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Rosemont, Surrealist Women
This surrealist revolution was at first viewed by the surrealists themselves in nonpolitical terms, as a revolution of the spirit or mind.
Surrealists rejected the other-worldly tenets of spiritualism, but early on they were deeply interested in all forms of psychic automatism and found much to admire in the products of Hélène Smith's wayward imagination.
That it took so long for the surrealists to discover her is a striking indication of the generalized and deeply ingrained antifeminism of French intellectual life.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exrossur.html   (9155 words)

  
 What is the metaphoric symbolism in Salvador Dali
Surrealists base their art upon fantasy and use it as a tool to discover their mind on a higher level.
Automatism is the way of expressing your subconscious in the way that it comes to your conscience and not making any interpretations or connections with it to the real world.
Veristic surrealists try to make sense of their subconscious and paint with influence from the conscious state of mind.
whirlwind.he.net /~ercarlso/student/What_is_the_metaphoric_symbolism_in_Salvador_Dal.html   (3716 words)

  
 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: Surrealism: Two Private Eyes
Ertegun's passion for Surrealist poetry, also predating his interest in art, was unmistakable from his first meeting with Filipacchi, when Nesuhi's recitation of "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud--whom the Surrealists saw as a precursor--launched their friendship.
One Surrealist precursor represented in the collections is Giorgio de Chirico, whose mysterious landscapes juxtapose a rational, classical world and the arcades of dreams.
As a means of exploring the metaphors that arise from accidental and chance combinations, the Surrealists experimented with a parlor game in which participants jointly created a phrase by each person's adding words to a piece of paper without looking at what had previously been written.
www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/surrealism/surreal_bottom.html   (1442 words)

  
 3D Fantasy Art Surrealism Pictures: modern neo surrealism paintings
In addition to surrealist ideas that are grounded in the ideas of Hegel, Marx and Freud, surrealism is seen by its advocates as being inherently dynamic and is dialectic in its thought.
Surrealists believe that "non-Western" cultures also provide a continued source of inspiration for surrealist activity because some may strike up a better balance between instrumental reason and the imagination in flight than Western culture.
Surrealist music In the 1920s several composers were influenced by surrealism, or by individuals in the surrealist movment.
artist-3d.com /01surrealism   (1117 words)

  
 A Surrealist trip through time - The Boston Globe
And then there was Picasso, who fraternized with Surrealists in Paris and exhibited with them, though his work never fit comfortably into the movement.
A Nyack, N.Y., native living in Queens, Cornell saw collages by the Surrealist Max Ernst in Manhattan in 1931 that inspired him to invent his own collages and singular boxed assemblages.
Jackson Pollock's infamous drips are direct descendants of Surrealist spontaneous automatism.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/12/11/a_surrealist_trip_through_time/?page=full   (887 words)

  
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Automatism permitted radical speech and transgressive behavior because both were seen to originate from a spiritually elevated “elsewhere” and not from the flawed feminine body of the Spiritualist herself.
The result of automatism is thus the relocation of author or artist to the margins, transforming her/him into merely a hand that writes, merely a body that secretes words; the text itself, literally automatic, perhaps even autonomous, enters the light of the center.
While automatism initially provided Surrealism with a method of “liberating” both textuality and subjectivity, it ultimately eluded the Surrealists’ control, thus proving profoundly dangerous for artists and writers who were attempting to stamp their names upon a new creative movement.
www.rochester.edu /in_visible_culture/Issue_7/Thompson/thompson.html   (5646 words)

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