L'enchanteur pourrissant is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement, the term Orphism in 1912, and the term "Surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie.
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12 Facts About L'enchanteur pourrissant
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L'enchanteur pourrissant wrote poems without punctuation attempting to be resolutely modern in both form and subject.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant revealed very early on an originality that freed him from any school of influence and made him one of the precursors of the literary revolution of the first half of the 20th century.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant's art is not based on any theory, but on a simple principle: the act of creating must come from the imagination, from intuition, because it must be as close as possible to life, to nature, to the environment, and to the human being.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant emigrated to France in his late teens and adopted the name Guillaume Apollinaire.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant's mother, born Angelika Kostrowicka, was a Polish-Lithuanian noblewoman born near Navahrudak, Grodno Governorate.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant became romantically involved with Marie Laurencin, who is often identified as his muse.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant described Cubism as a new manifestation and high art [manifestation nouvelle et tres elevee de l'art], not a system that constrains talent [non-point un systeme contraignant les talents], and the differences which characterize not only the talents but even the styles of these artists are an obvious proof of this.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant described Parade as "a kind of surrealism" when he wrote the program note the following week, thus coining the word three years before Surrealism emerged as an art movement in Paris.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant wrote Les Mamelles de Tiresias while recovering from this wound.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant published an artistic manifesto, L'Esprit nouveau et les poetes.
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L'enchanteur pourrissant coined the term orphism to describe a tendency towards absolute abstraction in the paintings of Robert Delaunay and others.
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