automatic writing
noun
: writing produced without conscious intention as if of telepathic or spiritualistic origin
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So the ideas came about from automatic writing, some of the current events, and also an incredible woman named Lhasa de Sela.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
What began five decades ago as a few folders of slides and fliers has grown into an apartment-filling archive encompassing color theory, UFOs, automatic writing and more.
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 16 May 2024
His ideal seemed to be art with a minimum of conscious calculation, in the spirit of Dadaist automatic writing or the wriggly abstractions of Pierre Alechinsky.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
People would gather, drink, converse, listen to readings and try out things like automatic writing.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
Starting with language itself, poetry and prose, a kind of free association led to automatic writing, then drawing, which led the surrealists to devise a collaborative game known as the Exquisite Corpse around 1925.
—John Zotos, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
His work — rueful, cerebral, gloriously smutty — includes trance poetry and automatic writing.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 5 May 2020
Dictionary Stories,’’ perched perilously somewhere between lexicography, automatic writing and flash fiction.
—Paul Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
Interested in philosophy and spiritualism, af Klint was part of de Fem (The Five), a group of women artists who conducted seances and experimented with automatic drawings long before Surrealists began their automatic writing projects.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2018
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
What began five decades ago as a few folders of slides and fliers has grown into an apartment-filling archive encompassing color theory, UFOs, automatic writing and more.
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 16 May 2024
His ideal seemed to be art with a minimum of conscious calculation, in the spirit of Dadaist automatic writing or the wriggly abstractions of Pierre Alechinsky.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
People would gather, drink, converse, listen to readings and try out things like automatic writing.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
Starting with language itself, poetry and prose, a kind of free association led to automatic writing, then drawing, which led the surrealists to devise a collaborative game known as the Exquisite Corpse around 1925.
—John Zotos, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
His work — rueful, cerebral, gloriously smutty — includes trance poetry and automatic writing.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 5 May 2020
Dictionary Stories,’’ perched perilously somewhere between lexicography, automatic writing and flash fiction.
—Paul Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
Interested in philosophy and spiritualism, af Klint was part of de Fem (The Five), a group of women artists who conducted seances and experimented with automatic drawings long before Surrealists began their automatic writing projects.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2018
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“Automatic writing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/automatic%20writing. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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