From the research of the practice of automatic techniques, to that of abstract expressionists, who also practice automatism in an abstract form.
Some of the artists that I’ve researched on that really intrigued me was probably Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning.
Some works by Jackson Pollock:
http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/story.php?title=later-20th-century-art
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/93942342199339900/
It is the way the lines form from the splatter of ink that really intrigues me, and how it, although very random, can portray so much emotion when you look at it.
My attempts of his work:
I tried the ink splatter, but obviously in a way smaller scale as compared to his.
Some works by Franz Kline:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/probst-i-34186
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/64.146
The work of Franz Kline is so simple yet brilliant. Just by forming stokes of black and white on canvases, and by zooming in on each stroke, you are able to see so much emotion being portrayed by each and every stroke that seemed so spontaneously constructed.
My attempts of his work:
Some works by Willem de Kooning:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/willem-de-kooning
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/186.1991/
The work of Willem de Kooning is that he combines different styles of painting which consists of Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism.
He portrays his emotion of anger and pain throughout most of his paintings, and also did lots of paintings of woman with those styles of painting.
My attempts of his work:
I tried bringing those abstract lines together, to make it seem more of an accidental way of getting an image of a person in the painting.
These are all just a start to all the research that was done and probably even more to come!
It’s time to get busy testing out more new and different techniques!