Surautomatism 178236 21221673 2005-08-17T15:21:03Z Sparkit 194762 [[Category:Surrealist techniques]] '''Surautomatism''' is any theory or act in practice of [[surrealism|surrealist]] [[creative production]] taking, or purporting to take, [[surrealist automatism|automatism]] to its most absurd limits. In their [[1945]] statement ''Dialectique de la Dialectique'', [[Romania]]n surrealists [[Gherashim Luca]] and [[Dolfi Trost]] wrote, :We have returned to the problem of knowledge through images... by establishing a clear distinction between images produced by artistic means and images resulting from rigorously applied scientific procedures, such as the operation of chance or of automatism. We stand opposed to the tendency to reproduce, through symbols, certain valid theoretical contents by the use of pictorial techniques, and believe that the unknown that surrounds us can find a staggering materialization of the highest order in indecipherable images. In generally accepting until now pictorial reproductive means, surrealist painting will find that the way to its blossoming lies in the absurd use of aplastic, objective and entirely non-artistic procedures. The name surautomatism suggests "going beyond" automatism, but whether surautomatism is anything but a group of methods by which surrealist automatism is practiced is controversial. Surautomatism includes [[cubomania]], [[entopic graphomania]] and various types of what the Romanian surrealists called "indecipherable writing". ==See also== * [[Surrealist techniques]] * [[Writing]] [[Category:Surrealist techniques]] [[fr:surautomatisme]]