Ricciotto Canudo
Ricciotto Canudo (1879-1923) is a French writer of Italian origin. Installed Paris in 1902, he plays an active role in the mediums of literary and artistic avant-garde. In 1913, it founds the review Montjoie! , " Body of French artistic Impérialisme, semi-monthly gazette illustrée" , where nationalism mixes curiously with the esthetic innovation. If the review opens to the writers (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Fargue, Dyssord), she wants to be above all " cérébriste" , which wants to say " sensual and cerebral all at the same time " according to the definition of Canudo. Many creators contributed to it, like Leger, Stravinsky, Gleizes, Duchamp-Villon. In the buildings of the review, street of the Roadway of Antin, Canudo organizes the " Mondays of Montjoie! " , which join together in particular Robert Delaunay, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Erik Satie, Fernand Leger, Blaise Cendrars, André Salmon, Marc Chagall…
With the declaration of the war, Canudo signs with Blaise Cendrars a " Appel" inviting the foreigners, friends of France, to engage. It evokes engagements on the face of Macedonia in accounts which it signs from now on " Canudo" captain;.
Novelist, poet, essay writer, he invented the term of 7 {{E}} art to indicate the Cinéma, allowing this one, for the first time, to claim itself like Article. Canudo publishes on October 25th 1911 a preliminary test entitled the Birth of the sixth art - Test on the cinematograph . 1911 are the year, enter others, of Little Nemo , one of most famous cartoon films, and The Lonedale Operator of David W. Griffith. This idea of the cinema as art will mature in the spirit of Canudo during several years, to lead to the Manifeste of 7 arts , published in 1923 in the n° 2 of the Gazette of Seven arts , its own review.
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