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Were among the participants of a surrealist movement very interesting person, such as Antonin Artaud. His participation in the surrealist movement was short-lived (from 1924 to 1926 and part of 1928), but bright and active: within a few months of 1925, he headed the Office of Research and surreal, even acted as team leader. As head of the Central Committee, he signed a collective declaration of 1925, which begins with the words: "Five members of the movement - Artaud, Buaffar, Leris, Masson, Naville - signed the following items:
1. First of all surreal and revolutionary interests, in their spirit was dominated by a certain state of violent passion.
2. They believe that this is a fierce passion will help them as quickly as possible to achieve what could be called surrealist insight "

Passionate rebellious spirit that Artaud brought to the group, was seriously alarmed by Breton, who felt he was losing control over the situation. He hastened to push impulsive competitor, especially as between them by that time there were disagreements political. Erupted in late 1926 scandal led to a rupture, which was accompanied by exchange of pamphlets.
With a surrealist Breton headed published in 1927, the text "In the light of day" - libel, impregnated with the poison of hatred. "He saw in the Revolution, only a change in the internal characteristics of the soul, which is characteristic only retarded, impotent and cowards - the document said. - Today we have for that wretch emetic aversion. We do not understand why this scoundrel is still slow in the treatment, why, how it, you swine, probably would have put it, does not become hriastianinom. "

Arto said no less caustic text "dark night, or Surreal bluff," which included such lines? "Yes, and in general whether there is surrealism?" Did not end there in that day, when Breton and his associates decided that the obligation to adhere to communism, and look for the facts and the immediate conclusion of the matter, which normally would occur only in the innermost part of the brain. " After the break with the Surrealists Arto no longer attempt to enter into any group. But in the last years of his life he drew a lot of it is in surreal fashion.
In addition to painting, Artaud was an actor and reformer of the theater. He gained fame radical program preobrazzovaniya drama, especially the idea of "theater of cruelty" that it had made in the manifesto in 1932 he believed that their effect is similar to the plague the theater: "It makes people see what they really are, he takes off the mask , exposing lies, depravity, rottenness and hypocrisy of the world. " Directing Arto supposed to end the "dictatorship of the speech, relying primarily on the use of nonverbal elements of theater, such as sound, light, gestures, facial expressions.