Automatism was a form of Surrealism that doesn't have much "structure". It is not focused on attempting to portray a particular type of image of provoke a particular type of though in the viewer. It is more of a form that "just is". It is just art for the viewer's pleasure. It portrayed images in a way that allowed subconscious images to be interpreted by the conscious. Jean Arp was an artist who created work of this from. A German scholar, poet and painter, his piece Ballerina, is a beautiful combination of colors and shapes that loosely depict just what the title calls it: a ballerina. The various colors of the painting, contrast against one another bringing unique thoughts and visions of the ballerina to each viewer. Besides the shapes that form the "legs" of the dancer, the remaining shapes also contribute to the various images seen by each viewer. .
Veristic Surrealism has a similar thought process behind their work as the Automatists did. The variation on their thinking is that they feel that the images that they depict from the subconscious to the conscious actually do have a meaning behind them and they want the viewer to see or feel that meaning. This art form is not yet accepted by art critics and in the words of Donald Kuspit, "Must first show that it has democratic appeal-appeal to those generally unschooled in art or not professionally interested in it. Then it must suffer a period of aristocratic rejection-by those schooled in an accepted and thereby 'traditional' art, those with a vested interest in a known art, and concerned with protecting it at all cost." (http://www.bway.net/~monique/research.htm) However, while critics do not currently accept this form of Surrealism, it is what is most widely understood as being today's definition of Surrealism. There are three forms of Veristic Surrealism and each has it own blueprint to give the meaning of its image to the viewer.