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The 22 pages that link to Surrealist automatism, each with the reason it gives.

• SurrealismRelated: Surrealists used it to bypass deliberate reasoning while making images and texts.

• André BretonBroader topic: Breton treated automatism as a way to access mental processes beyond deliberate reason.

• Modern artRelated: Surrealists used automatism to challenge deliberate composition and access unconscious associations.

• AgencyCompared with: It shows why purposeful-looking movement need not demonstrate agency.

• Automatic writingBroader topic: It turned automatic writing into a deliberate avant-garde technique rather than solely a mediumistic practice.

• Focal SeizureRelated: Automatisms can occur during focal seizures with impaired awareness.

• Action paintingRelated: Its emphasis on unplanned production helped shape the movement’s approach to gesture.

• Automatic drawingNarrower topic: Automatic drawing is one visual form of this broader creative method.

• Gestural abstractionRelated: Its emphasis on unplanned marks informs gestural approaches to composition.

• Insanity defenseCompared with: It may excuse involuntary conduct without relying on the insanity standard.

• Max ErnstRelated: Ernst’s chance-based procedures gave visual form to Surrealist interest in unconscious production.

• Lyrical abstractionRelated: Its ideal of unpremeditated making helps explain the movement’s spontaneous marks.

• European avant-gardeRelated: Surrealists used automatism to bring unconscious associations into artistic practice.

• Joan MiróRelated: Miró’s experiments with chance and spontaneity anticipated later interest in automatic mark-making.

• Harold RosenbergCompared with: Rosenberg’s emphasis on action differs from accounts of gesture as automatic release.

• Un Chien AndalouRelated: The film's origin story invokes dream images and chance associations rather than a planned narrative.

• Leonora CarringtonRelated: Its trust in unexpected associations helps explain the dreamlike logic of her imagery.

• Temporal lobe epilepsyRelated: Automatisms are characteristic manifestations of some temporal-lobe seizures.

• Arshile GorkyRelated: Its emphasis on spontaneity helps explain the freer marks in Gorky's late work.

• BiomorphismRelated: Its improvisational marks could develop into forms resembling cells or organisms.

• InformalismRelated: Its pursuit of unplanned marks helps explain Informalism’s embrace of chance.

• Jan ŠvankmajerRelated: Its embrace of chance and irrational association parallels his treatment of images and objects.