#automatism

[disease]

"INVENTION OF THE LABYRINTH" ANDRÉ MASSON // 1942 [ink on colored paper | 23 1/8 x 18 1/4"]

#andré masson #andre masson #automatism #drawing #abstract #automatic drawing #monochrome #modern art #40s #french #art #u

[hillshave-eyes]

warlock

#illustration #dark art #gothic #eldritch #lovecraft #crosshatching #dark #dark fantasy #scorn #macabre #hr giger #bloodborne #alien #cosmic horror #eldrich horror #automatism #the hills have eyes #creepy art

[artdunk]

#my doodles #traditonal art #pencil #hands #body horror #abstract #creature #automatism #anxiety art #wood #absurdism #goop #organic matter

[nursery]

Arrival (Matthew 4:11)

by Well Wxlston

Ink on bristol, 11 x 14 in.

“Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.”

#automatism #surrealist art #surrealism #spirit drawing

[glitchphotography]

The Computer Will Paint for Us Tonight (03)  from “Le Mystère Mario Paint,” 2019 //  Automatic digital paintings created by glitching the attract mode demos in Mario Paint  

cw: flashing

#glitch art #glitchcore #gif #art #video game art #mario paint #snes #90s #rom corruption #flashing #pixel art #animation #automatism #automatic painting #aesthetic #webcore

[diana-andraste]

After three ways in the rain image

when waking your counterimage: he,

the magician. Angels weave you in

the dragonbody. Rings in the way,

long in the rain I become yours.

Unica Zürn, Will I Meet You Sometime?

trans. Pierre Joris

Ermenonville 1959

#poetry #unica zürn #1950s #anagram #anagram poetry #pierre joris #hans bellmer #automatism #hexentexte #intimacy

[emabatis]

The second "Scotch Tape and Paperclips" zine: "Second Fiddle" is here!! This time it's all about games and the games we play to better understand them. Also spaghetti. Get the printable version for free on my itch.io!

If you perchance make something of these games, I'd love to see it!

#my poetry #my art #the sims 2 #the sims 2 premades #viola monty #ts2 veronaville #poetry zine #game zine #cw noose #automatism #fanzine #ts2 #poetry game #puzzle #hangman #word scramble #word search

[havesexwithghosts]

Jeremy in his office, colored pencil, graphite, watercolor and gouache on paper, 30 x 22″, 2022

#ghost vomit #elijah burgher #jeremy #jeremy biles #ape of thoth #minotaur #queen of swords #automatism #bataille #portrait #friendship as a way of life

[ylespar]

"The curious expression of character given by handwriting is due to the automatic or unconscious nature that it acquires by habit. So Automatic drawing, one of the simplest of psychic phenomena, is a means of characteristic expression and, if used with courage and honesty, of recording subconscious activities in the mind. The mental mechanisms used are those common in dreams, which create quick perception of relations in the unexpected, as wit, and psycho-neurotic symptoms. Hence it appears that single or non-consciousness is an essential condition and as in all inspiration the product of involution not invention."

— Austin Osman Spare, Automatic Drawing

#automatic drawing #automatic writing #automatism #anomalous experience #anomalous cognition #psychic development #Austin Osman Spare #indexmiscellany

[nrutkowski1]

Composition 4/7/2024. Acrylic on cardboard paper towels and recycled shopping bag.

#acrylic #automatism #process #painting #surrealism #artists on tumblr #abstractart

[disease]

"AUTOMATIC DRAWING" ANDRÉ MASSON | PARIS, 1924 [ink on paper | 9 1/4 x 8 1/8"]

André Masson began automatic drawings with no preconceived subject or composition in mind. Like a medium channeling a spirit, he let his pen travel rapidly across the paper without conscious control. He soon found hints of images—fragmented bodies and objects—emerging from the abstract, lacelike web of pen marks. At times Masson elaborated on these with conscious changes or additions, but he left the traces of the rapidly drawn ink mostly intact.

#andré masson #andre masson #automatism #abstract #modern art #drawing #automatic drawing #paris #monochrome #20s #french #art #u

[steven-vandervate-art]

The Junkie’s Hustle

#abstraction #figure #drawing #art #surrealism #automatism

[victorpoirel]

"PPM X (Petite Peinture Merdique) 55x46 Acrylique Sur Toile 2022 #victorpoirelstudio #victorpoirel #acrylicpainting #canvaspainting #abstractpainting #painting #contemporarypainting #modernpainting #artnow #newart #newartists #artofthiscentury #vincentvangogh #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #automatism #surrealism #frenchpainter #frenchartist #frenchcontemporaryartist #parisfrance #robertjanitz #alainkirili #davidreed #actionpainting #artgallerys #artcollectors #ensba (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Crvzi0xoRgg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#victorpoirelstudio #victorpoirel #acrylicpainting #canvaspainting #abstractpainting #painting #contemporarypainting #modernpainting #artnow #newart #newartists #artofthiscentury #vincentvangogh #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #automatism #surrealism #frenchpainter #frenchartist #frenchcontemporaryartist #parisfrance #robertjanitz #alainkirili #davidreed #actionpainting #artgallerys #artcollectors #ensba

[nursery]

Morning Star (Blessed Are the Pure in Heart, for They Shall See God)

by Well Wxlston

Ink on bristol, 11 x 14 in.

#automatism #automatic drawing #surrealism #surrealist art #illustration #spirit drawing

[glitchphotography]

The Computer Will Paint for Us Tonight (02) from “Le Mystère Mario Paint,” 2019 // Automatic digital paintings created by glitching the attract mode demos in Mario Paint

cw: flashing

#glitchcore #gif #glitch art #art #video game art #mario paint #snes #rom corruption #webpunk #webcore #aesthetic #pixel art #databending #animation #automatism #automatic painting #flashing

[stellacartography]

Surrealist Games #1

I bought a book:

A Book of Surrealist Games

I’ve been looking for this for years.

And because I think Tumblr content and surrealism/dadaism share a common origin point, I’ll be posting my thoughts on the games inside and linking to ways we play similar games now.

First up: Automatism.

Automatic writing or drawing, The Exquisite Corpse, Simulation, Definitions, and Conditionals are all classic examples of games that employ this technique. A century removed from the progenitor of the movement, we play similar games here on the hellsite but with the added advantage of AI. Tools like autocorrect and AI tools such as GPT and DALL-E give us the element of chance in creating at our fingertips.

Definitions is a multiplayer game where one person writes and conceals a question such as “What is love?” and the next player writes an answer without seeing the question. “The shadow formed by a star’s collapse.”

We play several iterations of this game with autocorrect (i.e. Write “my gender is” and let autocorrect finish the sentence: “my gender is a bit not good”). But we also play that game of deliberate misidentification where someone (sometimes genuinely?) asks “Who/what is X?” and what ensues is a long string of wrong answers and corrections. (“Who is Neil Gaiman?” “He’s one of the first people who landed on the moon.” “No you’re thinking of Neil Armstrong. Neil Gaiman is the guy from How I Met Your Mother.” etc.)

The Exquisite Corpse is played by at least three players and is a bit like Mad Libs.

The first person writes a definite or indefinite article and an adjective and conceals it by folding the paper

The second person writes a noun and conceals it

The third person writes a verb and conceals it

The process is repeated with another definite or indefinite article and an adjective5. And finally a noun

This produces sentences like the eponymous: “The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.” It’s a bit formulaic but this is one thing that would work better in discord than on Tumblr. (Someone tell @staff we need spoiler text.)

Conditionals is a similar game that would benefit from spoiler text. An ‘If’ statement is written by one player and the next player writes the 'Then’ statement. The examples in the book are pretty random and not all that clever so to anyone who read this, I leave you with the following conditional:

“If matriarchy swallows capitalism…”

#surrealism #the surrealists would have loved and hated Tumblr #surrealist games on tumblr #automatism #automatic writing #definitions #exquisite corpse #dadaism #conditionals