Man Ray
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Rudzitsky (or Rudnitsky or Radnitzky) on 27 August 1890 , at Philadelphia , USA , died on 18 November 1976 in Paris , France , is a painter, photographer and film director, actor Dada to New York, then of Surrealism in Paris.
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Biography
His career began in New York. With his close friend Marcel Duchamp , they form the U.S. branch of the movement Dada. After several unsuccessful artistic experiences, including a publication on New York Dada in 1920 , Man Ray concludes that "Dada can not live in New York."
On July 14, 1921 Man Ray arrived in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), then arrives in Paris at the Gare St. Lazare where Marcel Duchamp hosts. The same evening he was presented to the surrealist Louis Aragon , Andr Breton , Paul Eluard and Gala , Thodore Fraenkel , Jacques Rigaut and Philippe Soupault. He settled in the Montparnasse district , meets and falls in love with the French singer and model Kiki de Montparnasse. He also met the couturier Paul Poiret. He produced numerous fashion shoots, which are published in magazines and help make it known. To his great regret, he will never have the opportunity to portray fashion designer. In his memoir, he says that the death of Paul Poiret, he sent a newspaper photo of the designer's personal physician as a portrait of Poiret and this photo was published as such.
With Jean Arp , Max Ernst , Andr Masson , Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso , he exhibits in the first exhibition surreal the Galerie Pierre in Paris in 1925.
Friend Marie-Laure de Noailles and Charles Vicomte de Noailles , he turns into 1928 at Hyeres in Villa Noailles his third film The Mysteries of the Castle Dice.
In Montparnasse, for thirty years, Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography. The great artists of his time in asking his goal, as James Joyce , Gertrude Stein and Jean Cocteau. It helps to highlight the work of Eugene Atget he does discover surreal and his assistant, Berenice Abbott. In 1934 , Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray posed for this series of photos of naked is one of his most famous series.
In 1940, after the defeat of France, Man Ray manages to reach Lisbon and sailed for the United States along with Salvador Dal and Gala and filmmaker Ren Clair. After a few days in New York , he won the West Coast with plans to leave the country to Tahiti where he would remain there a few years. Arriving in Hollywood , he received proposals for exhibition, meeting a woman, Juliet, and decides to take up painting.
It becomes Satrap the College Pataphysique in 1963.
Buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse (7th Division), one can read his epitaph on his tomb: "Unconcerned, but not indifferent" ("detached but not indifferent").
Works
Objects
- Rope dancer accompanied by its shadow, 1916
- Self Portrait, assembly, 1916
- Boardwalk, 1917
- Gift, filled with iron nails on the sole, 1921
- The Twenty days of Juliet, 1952, screen
- Snowball .
- Surrealist Chess, 1934, panopticon of 20 portraits of surrealist artists
Movies
- 1923 : The Return to Reason
- 1924 : What young people dream movies
- 1926 : EMAK-Bakia
- 1928 : The Starfish
- 1929 : The Mysteries of the Castle Dice
- 1935 : Simulation Test of cinematic delirium
Paintings
- 1914: The Lovers (Les Amants), oil on canvas, 24.7 x 35.2 cm (Coll. Sylvio Perlstein, Antwerp)
- 1938: The Rebus, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, Muse National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 1939: Rain.
- 1952: Street Ferou at the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld.
- 1958: Painting Nature.
Drawings
- Hands free, illustrated by drawings of poems by Paul Eluard , Ed. Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1937
Books and monographs
- Revolving doors, Surrealist Editions, Paris, 1917
- Fields delicious hors commerce, Paris, 1922
- Man Ray photographs 1920-1934, James Thrall Soby
- Easy with Paul Eluard, Ed. GLM, Paris, 1935
- Photography is not art: 12 photographs, Ed. GLM, Paris, 1937, with a foreword to Andre Breton "Convulsionnaires"
- Alphabet for Adults, Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, 1948
- Photographs-Portraits Edition Prisma, Paris
- Self Portrait, 1963, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1964, translated from the U.S. by Anne Guerin, reissued Seghers , 1986
Filmography
- Franois Lvy-Kuentz, Man Ray - 2 bis, rue Ferou, 1989, 23 min, Dilecta editions. Film on Man Ray's studio shortly before its destruction .
Awards
Quote of the artist
- Impossibility Dancer / Danger, airbrush on glass is sold 1.4 million euros in Paris, April 14, 2003. The buyer is the Centre Georges Pompidou .
References
- Reproduction in Beaux-Arts magazine No. 68, May 1989, p. 115
- Reproduced on the cover of Letters of Denise Levy Simone Breton, Joelle Losfeld editions, Paris, 2005
- Reproduction in Giovanni Lista Dada libertin & libertarian, "The Unusual, Paris 2005, p. 67
- Reproduction in Art Press 2, No. 13, May 2009, p. 11
- Marguerite Bonnet "Andr Breton, the complete works t.1: notes", Gallimard, La Pliade, Paris, 1988 1565
- Beaux Arts magazine No. 290, August 2008
- Breton: a review generous - Le Journal des Arts No. 170, May 2, 2003
Bibliography
- Chantal Vieuille, Nusch portrait of a muse, Surrealism Artelittera, with photographs by Man Ray, Paris, 2010 ( ISBN 2-9536-2490-2 )
External Links
- (En) (fr) Digital Photo Library - Authorized by the Man Ray Trust
- (In) The Masters Series: Man Ray - VideoArtWorld, access to a selected filmography online
- (In) Images of Man Ray and texts - Getty Center in Los Angeles
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