Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]

Anotations

Scope note:

Term that was appropriated first by the Surrealists from physiology and psychiatry, and later applied to spontaneous writing, drawing, and painting. Automatism in the visual arts includes techniques in other movements as well, such as Abstract Expressionism and others, referring generally to manual creation techniques involving chance or psychological experiences.