Charlie Chaplin
Is Charlie Chaplin considered a surreal artist? there is many opinions on the internet about if he is or not, but in this post there is plenty of information which can help you decide if you think he is or not.
had “deeply marked all of French poetry” page 4 of 13 number 10
The Surrealists Go To The Movies
It is impossible to disentangle the influence of Chaplin on French artists, writers, and poets
of his day from their general enthusiasm for American films immediately following the war.
Phillipe Soupault would claim in his seminal 1924 article “Cinéma U.S.A.” that these movies
had “deeply marked all of French poetry” page 4 of 13 number 10
Never one to pass up a practical joke, Tzara nonchalantly inserted the names of The Prince of
Monaco, Georges Clemenceau, and Charlie Chaplin—among many others [Fig. 2]—into this
already illustrious roster.
Upon receiving the poster, Breton couldn’t contain the impossible hope of having Charlot,
the ultimate prankster, join their ranks. He wrote in a letter to Tzara: “This echo of Charlie
Chaplin is a delicious surprise. But of course, it’s not true?”6 But the hoax didn’t stop there.
After Tzara’s arrival in Paris in 1920, he gave word to the newspapers that Chaplin would be
among them for the Dada event at the Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais. Not
picking up on the prank, the newspaper Le Journal du Peuple relayed the news that Chaplin
would be publicly converted to Dadism.7 Chaplin never showed up, of course, but the Dadaists
carried on without even bothering to address the elephant in the room with the increasingly
hostile audience.page 3 of 13
There is something been influenced by Charlie chaplin called chaplinism. this is described in the link below. http://tetsure.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/chaplinism.html
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