"In 1942-43 Motherwell and Baziotes felt an absorbing interest in automatism, propagandized by Matta, as a source of new forms and new truths in art. Baziotes' contacts with Surrealism at this time are essential to his subsequent development; in 1942 he exhibited in Andre Breton's 'First Papers of Surrealism' [show] at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion, and in 1944 he [Baziotes] held his first one man exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's 'Art of This Century.' which was a junction of expatriate European Surrealists and younger American artists [ Pollock showed there too]."