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What does automatism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word automatism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Acting automatically or involuntarily.
  2. (psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
  3. A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
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I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism.
Like many midcentury abstractionists, he was influenced by the Surrealist idea of automatism, which he incorporated into his early works.
You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.
This instruction will have to be modified where the accused has a legal burden of proof, such as for mental disorder or non-insane automatism.
Medical opinions about automatism are likely to vary considerably because of a lack of expertise and substantive relation to classification.
Like most surrealist practices, automatism is only secondarily a style or compositional method.

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