The couple
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Man Ray was a leading artist of 20th century America. Man Ray awakened to the European avant-garde art at Armory Show in 1913 in New York. In 1915 he met Marcel Duchamp who came from Paris to the United States, and subsequently started the New York Dada movement around 1917. In 1921, Ray moved to Paris where he interacted with Surrealist artists and became active in various fields, including photography, filmmaking, and object creation. A number of humorous objects aiming to deviate from traditional art concepts were produced. The couple was produced in 1914, a year before Man Ray met Duchamp. Influenced by Picasso and Braque whose works Man Ray saw at Armory Show, he drew the couple lying over each other near trees in this cubism painting. Ray stopped producing oil paintings with nature as a motif after 1914.
Man Ray (1890 – 1976)
Man Ray (1890-1976): Pioner innen dadaisme og surrealisme. Kjent for rayografier, fotografisk kunst og eksperimentell film – en banebrytende figur i 20. århundrets kunst.
Sezon Museum of Modern Art (Karuizawa, Japan)
Oppdag moderne og samtidskunst ved Sezon Museum of Modern Art i Karuizawa, Japan! Utforsk over 800 verk av Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi m.fl. i vakre naturlige omgivelser og unik arkitektur.
Om dette kunstverket
- Tittel: The couple
- Kunstner: Man Ray
- År: 1914
- Format: Landscape
- Opphavsrettslig status: Opphavsrettslig beskyttet
- Utstillingssted: Sezon Museum of Modern Art
- Bevegelse: Cubism
- Medium: Oil On Canvas
- Kreativ periode: Early Period
- Kontekst for korpus: nature motif departure , dada movement roots
Kort om verket
- Title: The couple
- Artist: Man Ray
- Year: 1914
- Artistic style: Cubist-influenced
- Medium: Oil paint on canvas
- Influences:
- Picasso
- Braque


