Automatic Drawing

Contemporary Cartographies: Drawing Thought, CaixaForum, Barcelona, 2012. Wandering Lines: From Automatic Drawing to Abstraction, England & Co, London,2012.

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing, an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the r...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing, an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the r...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing, an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the r...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing, an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and r...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing, an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and r...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

As a leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious control and re...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the ra...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the ra...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the ra...

A leading member of the Surrealist movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to bypass conscious control and reveal the ra...

Roberto Matta introduced Motherwell to the concept of "automatic" drawing or automatism, which the Surrealists used to tap into their unconscious.

He produced his first automatic drawings and truly Surrealist paintings such as Crown and Chevalier in 1924, and Indian ink portraits of the main Surrealist artists and paintings, su...

Henri Deparade’s art is a synthesis of abstract-expressionist spatiality and psychologically automatic figure drawing, with occasional glimpses of recognizable reality.

Henri Deparade’s art is a synthesis of abstract-expressionist spatiality and psychologically automatic figure drawing, with occasional glimpses of real-world references.

Henri Deparade’s art is a synthesis of abstract-expressionist spatiality and psychologically automatic figure drawing, with occasional glimpses of real-world references.

Kamran works intuitively, without preconceived ideas much like an ‘automatist’ whereby drawing is automatic allowing the subconscious to emerge.

Kamran works intuitively, without preconceived ideas much like an ‘automatist’ whereby drawing is automatic allowing the subconscious to emerge.

Kamran works intuitively, without preconceived ideas much like an ‘automatist’ whereby drawing is automatic allowing the subconscious to emerge.

The photographs of "graffiti" by Brassai were also a revelation. His interest in drawing and "automatic writing" (although he was not interested in Surrealism) led him to invent a me...

The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...

The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...

The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...

The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...

The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...

About the Artist: Robert Motherwell was an American artist and seminal Abstract Expressionist painter. Influenced by the automatic writing and drawing prescribed by the Surrealists, ...

Some Surrealists practiced psychic 'automatism' which was automatic writing or drawing, turning off the conscious mind and producing streams of words or images directly from the unco...

Artist Biography: Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American artist and seminal Abstract Expressionist painter. Influenced by the automatic writing and draw...