| Like many midcentury abstractionists, he was influenced by the Surrealist idea of automatism, which he incorporated into his early works. |
| He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence. |
| You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism. |
| The most frequent example of self-induced automatism is intoxication arising from the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or proscribed drugs. |
| I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism. |
| Automatic writing was one activity that the surrealists housed under the rubric of psychic automatism. |
