Ray, Man - Lee's Eyes c.1920 photograph - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title:  Lee's Eyes c.1929-30
• Artist (if known):  Man Ray
• Media or other details:  photograph
• Publisher / Gallery: Man Ray Trust, c.2000s
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

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Stock No.: A308

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 � November 18, 1976) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called ""rayographs"" in reference to himself.^[1]

Ray's work was not appreciated during his lifetime, with the exception of his fashion and portrait photography; especially in his native United States. Nevertheless, his reputation has grown steadily in the decades since.

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In July 1921, Man Ray went to live and work in Paris, France. He soon settled in the Montparnasse quarter favored by many artists. Shortly after arriving in Paris, he met and fell in love with Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), an artists' model and celebrated character in Paris bohemian circles. Kiki was Man Ray's companion for most of the 1920s. She became the subject of some of his most famous photographic images and starred in his experimental films. In 1929, he began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer Lee Miller.

For the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray was a distinguished photographer. Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor,^[11] and Antonin Artaud, posed for his camera.

Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition with Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Andr� Masson, Joan Mir�, and Pablo Picasso at the Galerie Pierre in Paris in 1925. A metronome with an eye, originally titled Object to Be Destroyed, was one of his works from the time. Another important work from the time was the Violon d'Ingres,^[12] a stunning photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse,^[13] styled after the painter/musician Ingres. Violon d'Ingres is a popular example of how Man Ray could juxtapose disparate elements in his photography to generate meaning.^[14]

In 1934, surrealist artist M�ret Oppenheim, known for her fur-covered teacup, posed nude for Man Ray in a well-known series of photographs depicting her standing next to a printing press.

With Lee Miller, his photography assistant and lover, Man Ray reinvented the photographic technique of solarization. He also created a type of photogram he called ""rayographs"", which he described as ""pure dadaism"".

Man Ray directed a number of influential avant-garde short films, known as Cin�ma Pur. He directed Le Retour � la Raison (2 mins, 1923); Emak-Bakia (16 mins, 1926); L'�toile de Mer (15 mins, 1928); and Les Myst�res du Ch�teau de D� (27 mins, 1929). Man Ray also assisted Marcel Duchamp with the cinematography of his film Anemic Cinema (1926), and Ray personally manned the camera on Fernand L�ger's Ballet M�canique (1924). In Ren� Clair's film Entr'acte (1924), Man Ray appeared in a brief scene playing chess with Duchamp.

Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia were friends and collaborators. The three were connected by their experimental, entertaining, and innovative art.

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