
Executive Room Man Ray
{August 27, 1890 (Philadelphia, USA) – November 18, 1976 (Paris, France)}
One of the rooms of our boutique hotel, in the center of Porto, represents this artist in an excellent way. In our Torel Avantgarde you will find this Executive Room, in a monochromatic tone, which reflects your black and white photography.
See our other rooms in the Executive category: Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, Kazimir Malevich, Robert Rauschenberg, Oscar Wilde, Niki de Saint Phalle, Janis Joplin, Eileen Gray, Oskar Barnack, Ferdinand Porsche, Alberto Giacometti, Le Corbusier, Anais Nin, Nikola Tesla, Astor Piazzolla and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France.
He contributed significantly to the Dada and Surrealism Movements, although his ties were informal.
Despite having produced great works on different media platforms, Man Ray assumed himself as a painter.
Well known for his photograms, he nicknamed them “rayographs”, in reference to himself.
Some of his main works:
Artistic currents: Dadaism and Surrealism.
"Today's tricks are tomorrow's truths." – Man Ray