![]() Surrealistic art requires great content and technique. In fine tuning their talent, the artists of this movement researched and studied the works of "Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung." Subsequently some artists chose to
express themselves in the abstract tradition, while others would express
themselves in the symbolic tradition. Automatism was referred by artists as a "suppression of consciousness in favor of the subconscious." They believed their images should not be burdened with meaning. True to this interpretation, Automatists "saw the academic discipline of art as intolerant of the free expression of feeling." They believed "form, which had dominated the history of art, was a culprit in that intolerance."
Through this system Automatists felt they could bring "life
to their images of the subconscious level." Reality was simply a metaphor of their inner conception. |