Charles Sirato (26 January 1905, in

Újvidék Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

– 1 January 1980, in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

) was a Hungarian poet, art theorist, and

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

. He most famously authored the Dimensionist manifesto.

Life

Pre-1930

Dimensionist manifesto

In 1936 in Paris, Charles Tamkó Sirató published his ''Manifeste Dimensioniste'', which described how The manifesto was signed by many prominent modern artists worldwide.

Yervand Kochar Yervand "Kochar" Kocharyan, also known as Ervand Kochar (; 1899 – 1979) was a prominent sculptor and modern artist of the twentieth century and a founder of Painting in Space art movement. The Ervand Kochar Museum is located in Yerevan, Armenia ...

Hans Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (; ; 16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born Hans Peter Wilhelm Ar ...

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typography, typographist closely associated with Dada. When consid ...

Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

Robert Delaunay Robert Delaunay (; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism (art), Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and g ...

and Marcel Duchamp amongst others added their names in Paris, then a short while later it was endorsed by artists abroad including

László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by Constructivism (art), con ...

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , ; ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and Ceramic art, ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona ...

David Kakabadze Davit Kakabadze ( ka, დავით კაკაბაძე) (20 August 1889 – 10 May 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the fi ...

Alexander Calder Alexander "Sandy" Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobile (sculpture), mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, hi ...

, and

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England. Backg ...

List of works

Literature

*''Manifeste Dimensioniste'', 1936 *''Az Élet tavaszán'', 1921 *''Le Planisme'', 1936 *''Kiáltás'', 1942 *''A három űrsziget'', 1969 *''A Vízöntő-kor hajnalán'', 1969 *''Tengereczki Pál'', 1970 *''A hegedű vőlegénye'', 1971 *''Pinty és Ponty'', 1972 *''Kozmogrammok'', 1975 *''Tengereczki hazaszáll'', 1975 *''Szélkiáltó'', 1977 *''Jövőbúvárok'', 1980 *''Összegyűjtött versei I.'', 1993

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sirato, Charles Hungarian artists Hungarian male poets 1905 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers