Artist Birthdays August 27 โ MAN RAY
MAN RAY (August 27, 1890 โ November 18, 1976)
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Nationality: American
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Field: Painting, photography
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Art Movement: Dadaism, Surrealism
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ARTiFact: In 1946 he married Juliet Browner in a double wedding with friends and fellow-artists, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. When he died in 1976 he was interred with an epitaph that reads: โunconcerned, but not indifferentโ; when Juliet died in 1991 she was interred in the same tomb โ her epitaph reads: โtogether again.โ
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Artist Quote: โThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.โ
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Important Artwork (shown below): The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916.
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