Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film

Léopold SurvageWW-1913-M073404

1913·Watercolor and ink on paper on black paper-faced board·14 3/16 x 10 1/2" (36 x 26.6 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1913
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper on black paper-faced board
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 10 1/2" (36 x 26.6 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Léopold Survage

Artist

Léopold Survage

Painting

Léopold Survage was a French painter and filmmaker whose work pioneered abstract animation in the early twentieth century. He developed a distinctive approach to color abstraction through oil painting and experimental film, creating geometric compositions that moved between pure abstraction and organic form. His practice bridged painting, printmaking, and cinema, exploring rhythm and movement as fundamental pictorial elements. Active from the 1910s through the 1960s, Survage maintained a rigorous formal vocabulary centered on the relationship between color, line, and temporal sequence.

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