Under the initial stimulus of Miró and Ernst matured the style of Tanguy, in whose paintings no real content is discernible, and which marks the transition from automatism to the surreal image construction of the 1940s.
Hyperrealism and automatism were not mutually exclusive. Miró, for example, often used both methods in a single work. But however the subject matter of the work was represented, it always tended toward a bizarre and illogical visual result. Under the initial stimulus of Miró and Ernst matured the style of Tanguy, in whose paintings no real content is discernible, and which marks the transition from automatism to the surreal image construction of the 1940s.