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Automatic drawing was pioneered by André Masson . Artist s who practised automatic drawing include Joan Miró , Salvador Dalí , Jean Arp and André Breton . The technique was transferred to Painting (as seen in Miró's paintings which often started out as automatic drawings), and has been adapted to other media; there have even been Automatic "drawings" In Computer Graphics . Pablo Picasso was also thought to have expressed a type of automatic drawing in his later work, and particularly in his etchings and lithographic suites of the 1960s. Most of the surrealists' automatic drawings were Illusion istic, or more precisely, they developed into such drawings when representational forms seemed to suggest themselves. A group of French-Canadian artists, Les Automatistes , abandoned any trace of Representation in their use of automatic drawing. This is perhaps a more pure form of automatic drawing since it can be almost entirely involuntary — to develop a representational form requires the Conscious Mind to take over the process of drawing, unless it is entirely Accident al and thus incidental. ( Romanian surrealists claimed to have taken this purity even farther with the development of what they called " Surautomatic " methods, one of which is Entoptic Graphomania , in which the impurities in the paper itself are supposed to define the drawing.) SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |