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Man ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890 – 1976) is known mainly as a photographer. However, he painted, studied painting, designed, made films, wrote enthusiastically invested their talents in typography, design of books and magazines.
Although the photographs of man ray are present in all reviews devoted to Dada and surrealism, few people know about him as a universal artist. His art is not only diverse content, but with the two capitals of art of the twentieth century, Paris and new York, where he lived. Exhibition "Man Ray" notes his work as a whole and shows the artist as "a friend to everyone who was somebody."
A selection of 150 key works from around the world, including painting, photography, objects, works on paper, collages and albums, and experimental film shows a mysterious and complex personality of the artist. Man ray paved the way for modernists and contemporary art with the participation of Marcel Duchamp, is laying the Foundation of what we today mean by "art".
Although the photographs of man ray are present in all reviews devoted to Dada and surrealism, few people know about him as a universal artist. His art is not only diverse content, but with the two capitals of art of the twentieth century, Paris and new York, where he lived. Exhibition "Man Ray" notes his work as a whole and shows the artist as "a friend to everyone who was somebody."
A selection of 150 key works from around the world, including painting, photography, objects, works on paper, collages and albums, and experimental film shows a mysterious and complex personality of the artist. Man ray paved the way for modernists and contemporary art with the participation of Marcel Duchamp, is laying the Foundation of what we today mean by "art".
