Max Morise
Max Morise (* 1900 in Paris ; † 1973 ) was a French writer, artist and actor who was associated with the surrealist movement from 1924 to 1929 .
Live and act
Max Morise wrote texts for the magazines Littérature and La Révolution surréaliste , which were edited by André Breton , among others , and with whose wife Simone he had a liaison . In the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste of December 1, 1924, in his contribution Les Yeux enchantés ( Magic Eyes ), he turned against the imagery turned towards Surrealism, but in the following year Breton's view that painting and drawing played an important role in the Surrealism games. Like Breton, Duchamp , Duhamel , Man Ray , Miró and Tanguy , Morise participated in the automatic drawings of the Cadavre Exquis (Delicious Corpse), which were published in La Révolution surrealiste from 1927 . In 1929 he left the Breton group.
From the 1930s he had minor roles as a film actor, including Ciboulette (1933), Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936), Drôle de drame (1937) and Paris la belle (1960).
Max Morise appeared in photographs by Man Ray and was depicted as one of the friends in Max Ernst's pre-Surrealist painting The Rendezvous of Friends from 1922.
literature
- Uwe M. Schneede : The art of surrealism: poetry, painting, sculpture, photography, film . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54683-9
- Anita Haldemann (ed.): Les Yeux enchantés, drawings and prints of surrealism . Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel , Kupferstichkabinett, 2008/2009. Kerber, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-144-3
Web links
- Max morise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cadavre Exquis with the participation of Morise in the Museum of Modern Art , New York
- Max Morise on artnet
- Photos by Man Ray: members of the Bureau central de recherches surréalistes, 1924 and Souvenirs of Surrealism, 1925
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schneede: The Art of Surrealism , p. 240
- ^ The real women of the surrealists , schirn-magazin.de, accessed on November 18, 2012
- ↑ Les Yeux enchantés ( Memento from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), kunstmuseumbasel.ch
- ↑ Image examples , tigerloaf.wordpress.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morise, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and surrealist artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1973 |