Leopold Survage Biography
Survage Léopold (propr. Leopoldij Sturzvasge) (Moscow 1879 - Paris 1968) was a Russian painter naturalized French. After an initial musical education, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow. Strongly impressed by the paintings of H. Matisse from the Shchukin collection, in 1908 he went to Paris where, after a Fauvist debut and the first contacts with AP Archipenko, he became interested in the research of the Cubists with whom he exhibited, in 1911, at the Salon des Indépendants . Between 1912 and 1913, he painted the series of Colored Rhythms (New York, Museum of modern art; Paris, Musée national d'art moderni), created with the intention of producing an abstract film, in which shapes and colors contribute to the accentuation of dynamism. In 1919, with A. Gleizese Archipenko, he reorganized the Section d'or. Author of the costumes and sets for Mavradi SP Diaghilev, after 1921 he turned, with a wealth of inventions, to a schematic and elegant language of surrealist origin.
