1. Vicente Huidobro promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo.
21 Facts About Vicente Huidobro
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Vicente Huidobro spent his first years in Europe, and was educated by French and English governesses.
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Once his family was back in Chile, Vicente Huidobro was enrolled at the Colegio San Ignacio, a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago, where he was expelled for wearing a ring that he claimed was a wedding ring.
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Vicente Huidobro used to host "tertulias" or salons in the family home, where sometimes up to 60 people came to talk and to listen to her talk about literature, with guests including members of the family, servants, maids and a dwarf.
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Vicente Huidobro settled in Paris and published Adan, a work that began his next phase of artistic development.
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Vicente Huidobro met and mixed with most of the Parisian avant garde of this period: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Jacques Lipchitz, Francis Picabia, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, Amedeo Modigliani and Blaise Cendrars.
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In October 1918, Vicente Huidobro traveled to Madrid, making the first in a series of annual trips to that city.
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In Madrid, Vicente Huidobro met with Robert and Sonia Delaunay, refugees in Spain, and resumed his friendship with Rafael Cansinos-Assens.
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Vicente Huidobro started the literary movement Ultraismo, corresponded with Tristan Tzara and collaborated with him on his Dadaist magazine.
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In 1921, Vicente Huidobro founded and edited an international art magazine, Creacion, in Madrid.
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The next year, Vicente Huidobro presented his theory of "Pure Creation" at "Branche Studio" in Paris, and then in Berlin and Stockholm.
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Vicente Huidobro continued with his diverse artistic activities in Europe, producing the third edition of "Creation", where he published his "Manifeste peut-etre".
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Vicente Huidobro joined the French Masonic Lodge and met Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno, who was exiled in Paris at the time.
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Vicente Huidobro started another newspaper, "La reforma", in a symbolic gesture, young supporters of the progressive party declared him as their candidate for president.
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Vicente Huidobro returned to Europe by the late 1920s, where he began to write the novel, Mio Cid Campeador; he continued his work on Altazor and began Temblor de Cielo.
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Vicente Huidobro participated in the Mandragora, a Chilean surrealist movement founded in 1938.
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Vicente Huidobro went back to Chile in 1932, under the pressure of the Great Depression.
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Vicente Huidobro was discharged and went back to Santiago with his third wife, Raquel Senoret.
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Vicente Huidobro wrote over thirty works, including books of poetry and poetic narrative, of which more than a dozen were published posthumously.
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The Vicente Huidobro Foundation was created in 1990, in order to preserve the poet's works.
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Chile printed several postage stamps of portraits of Vicente Huidobro, including in 1986 and 1993.