Man Ray was born on August 27, 1890, and died November 18 1976. He was an American artist but spent most of his time painting in France. He was a big contributor to the Dada (a cultural movement that begin in Switzerland during WWI and concentrated on anti-war politics) and the surrealist ( a cultural movement in the 1920s that features the element of surprise) movements. Although Man Ray did a lot of art, he is most known for his photograms, or rayographs. Rayographs are photographic images without a camera by placing objects onto the surface of photo sensitive material and exposing it to light. In 1999 he was named one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century my ARTnews magazine. Man Ray offered artists and example of creative intelligence.
