Max Morise

Max Morise (* 1900 in Paris, † 1973) was a French writer, artist and actor who was associated from 1924 to 1929 with the surrealist movement.

Life and work

Max Morise wrote texts for the magazine Littérature and La Révolution surréaliste that were issued, among others, André Breton, and his wife Simone, he had an affair. In the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste of 1 December 1924, he turned in his contribution Les Yeux enchantés ( magic eye ) against the surrealism facing pictorial art, but in the following year, Breton championed the notion that painting and drawing an important role in Surrealism games. How, for example, Breton, Duchamp, Duhamel, Man Ray, Miró and Tanguy involved Morise on the automatic drawings of Cadavre Exquis ( Delicious body ), which were published in 1927 in La Révolution surrealiste. In 1929 he left the group around Breton.

From the 1930s, he had small roles as a film actor, among them were 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 one of the friends ready Rendezvous of Friends from 1922 in Max Ernst's paintings vorsurrealistischem.