Carolina QuotesPlastic automatism.. ..as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is actually very little a question of the unconsciousness. It is much more a plastic weapon with which to invent new forms. As such it is one of the twentieth century greatest formal inventions.
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Modern Painter's World, Robert Motherwell , Dyn, Nov. 1942, p. 13
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