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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (1890-1976)
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1915 Promenade1916 The Mime1921 Return to Reason1936 Observatory Time, The Lovers1938 La Fortune1938 Le Chevalier Rouge1938 Le Rébus1938 Pisces1938 The Imaginary Portrait of the Marquis de Sade1938 The Misunderstood1939 Twins with an 'A'1939 The Twins1939 The Good Times1941 Self Portrait1943 [Unidentified]1944 Winter1946 Endgame1946 Planta Desierta1946 Shakespearean Equation - MacBeth1948 Shakespearean Equation - As You Like It1948 Shakespearean Equation - Diderot's harpsichord or The Merchant of Venice1948 Shakespearean Equation - Julius Caesar1948 Shakespearean Equation - King Lear1948 Shakespearean Equation - Measure for Measure1948 Shakespearean Equation - Merry Wives of Windsor1948 Shakespearean Equation - Twelfth Night1948 Shakespearean Equations - All's Well That Ends Well1949 Shakespearean Equation - Hamlet1949 Shakespearean Equation - Much Ado about Nothing1950 ALINE ET VALCOUR1954 Shakespearean Equation - Romeo and Juliet1959 Image with two faces
Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, the eldest child of Russian Jewish immigrants. Later the family moved to Brooklyn, New York and in 1912, changed their surname to Ray. While still a child he showed significant artistic and technical abilities. He was enrolled in the Ferrer School in the autumn of 1912, and began to create some paintings. He befriended Marcel Duchamp who was then in New York and became drawn to Dada. In 1921 he moved to Paris where he stayed until the outbreak of the Second World War. During the 1920s he developed several methods for creating surrealist photographs for which he is now best known, however, despite being engrossed in this new medium he did not entirely abandon painting, though his output was modest.
After the war he retuned to Paris and in the late 1940s he created a series of paintings The Shakespearean Equations which were based on some sculptural models he had found in a mathematical institute of complex equations of surfaces in three dimensional space. He created paintings incorporating these shapes and associated each with a play of Shakespeare.
Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, the eldest child of Russian Jewish immigrants. Later the family moved to Brooklyn, New York and in 1912, changed their surname to Ray. While still a child he showed significant artistic and technical abilities. He was enrolled in the Ferrer School in the autumn of 1912, and began to create some paintings. He befriended Marcel Duchamp who was then in New York and became drawn to Dada. In 1921 he moved to Paris where he stayed until the outbreak of the Second World War. During the 1920s he developed several methods for creating surrealist photographs for which he is now best known, however, despite being engrossed in this new medium he did not entirely abandon painting, though his output was modest.
