Editing Surrealist automatism (section)

==Paul-Émile Borduas==
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The notion of automatism is also rooted in the artistic movement of the same name founded by Montreal artist [[Paul-Émile Borduas]] in 1942; himself influenced by the [[Dadaist]] movement as well as André Breton. He, as well as a dozen other artists from Quebec's artistic scene, very much under restrictive and authoritarian rule in that period, signed the ''Global Refusal'' manifesto, in which the artists called upon North American society (specifically in the culturally unique environment of [[Quebec]]), to take notice and act upon the societal evolution projected by these new cultural [[paradigms]] opened by the Automatist movement as well as other influences in the 1940s.