Man Ray

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Write what each word means, using the article.

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Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Man Ray born?August 27, 1890
2. When did Man Ray die?November 18, 1976 (age 86)
3. Where was Man Ray born?Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4. What is the career?Painter, photographer, filmmaker, sculptor, and graphic artist
5. What is the artistic affiliations?Informal ties to Dada and Surrealism
6. What is a rayograph and how did Man Ray make it?A rayograph is a photo made by putting objects directly on photographic paper and shining light on them. Man Ray used this trick to create pictures without a camera.

Avant-garde: Innovative or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, that are ahead of their time.
Dadaism: An early 20th-century art movement that rejected logic, reason, and aestheticism, often creating nonsensical or anti-art works.
Surrealism: A 20th-century movement of artists and writers who sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example, by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Photogram: A photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto a light-sensitive surface and then exposing it to light.