MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Automatistes, Francis Picabia
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Automatic writing: a technique, a literary aid, that consists of writing down as rapidly as possible. It is a direct dictation of the unconscious mind. Intended to lay bare the "mental matter" We already saw this interest in shaking up words. Automatist drawing: extends the writing exercise into visual realm. Rather than uncontrolled writing, it is uncontrolled drawing or doodling. Violence to women, seems to be the unconscious interest here. Emigrated to paris, said, dada didn"t really work in. Hadn"t been through the war, seen the destruction, in the same way, as europe had been. Experimented with many art forms, including painting, installation sculptures, photography, commercial work very prolific artist. Dada was not appreciated in the u. s. Very prolific in various media: sculpture, painting. Pp: man rays, untitled wire, spiral and smoke, 1923, Man ray experimented with the photogram, or what he called rayograms", after the zurich dada"s christian. This was a disruption of traditional picture making.
