Doug Eichenberg wrote:
>That idea of  "a million and one definitions for surrealism" is an
>interesting point.  I think a lot of folks will think of names like Dali
>when surrealism is brought up... yet Dali's paintings are executed with
>almost draftsmanship-like precision... is that really something that
>demonstrates automatism?  On the other hand, look at Jackson Pollock... the
>paintings he was known for show almost no control or aesthetic concern
>whatsoever... and yet he is classified as an abstract expressionist.
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I've just read up on Dali's paranoid critical
method(http://www.dali-gallery.com/html/method.htm) - You're right that it
doesn't easily fit into Breton's definition, though IIRC (and it's a long
time since I learned this) Breton was a poet, and took some convincing that
surrealist painting was even possible. I'd imagine he'd have similar
reservations about surrealist raytracing.
....Ooh, I've just taken a look at your site. Those blobby things look very
much like what I'd been imagining might fit this brief (note just imagining
- "absence of reason" so far as to how it's acheived). Would you class them
as surrealist renderings, or renderings with a surreal feel? (surreal
feel-? looks like I'm a poet too:)

 Luke.

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