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Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (
January 10,
1893 –
January 2,
1948) was a
Chilean poet born to an
aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called
Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.
Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in
Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a
Jesuit secondary school in Santiago, Were he was expelled for using a ring, wich he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the
University of Chile and published
Ecos del alma (
Soul's Echoes) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal
Musa Joven (
Young Muse), where part of his later book,
Canciones en la noche (
Songs in the Night) appeared, as well as his first
calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ("Harmonic Triangle").
In
1913, along with
Carlos Díaz Loyola, he edited the three issues of the journal
Azul, and published both
Canciones en la noche and
La gruta del silencio (
The Cry of Silence). The next year, he gave a lecture,
Non serviam, which reflected his
aesthetic creed. In another work of the same year, he explained his religious doubts and criticized the
Jesuits, earning himself the reproach of his family.
In
1916 he moved to
Europe with his wife and children. While in
Madrid, he met
Rafael Cansinos-Asséns, with whom he'd exchanged letters since
1914. He settled in
Paris and published
Adán (
Adam), a work that began his next phase of artistic development. Huidobro met and mixed with most of the Parisian
avant garde of this period:
Pablo Picasso,
Juan Gris,
Jacques Lipchitz,
Francis Picabia,
Joan Miró,
Max Ernst,
Paul Eluard and
Blaise Cendrars.
In October of
1918 Huidobro traveled to Madrid, the first of a series of annual trips to that city. There he shared both
Creacionismo and his knowledge of the Parisian vanguard with the artistic elite. Thus began the literary movement
Ultraísmo. He corresponded with
Tristan Tzara and collaborated with him on his
Dadaist journal. The following year he brought a rough draft to Madrid of the series of poems that would eventually become his masterwork,
Altazor.
While Huidobro continued to write in Paris, in
1921 he founded and edited the international journal of art,
Creación in Madrid; the journal featured a Lipchitz sculpture and the paintings of
Georges Braque, Picasso, Gris and
Albert Gleizes. In
November he printed the second issue in Paris and entitled it
Création Revue d'Art. In
December he presented his famous lecture,
La Poesía (
Poetry), which served as prologue to
Temblor de Cielo (
Tremor of Heaven).
He continued his multifarious artistic activities in Europe until
1925, when he moved back to Chile to edit and publish
political journalism and criticism. Youthful supporters proclaimed him their candidate for president. A bomb explosion followed in front of his house, however Huidobro escaped unharmed.
He returned to Europe by the late
1920s, where he began to write the novel,
Mío Cid Campeador; he also continued his work on
Altazor and began
Temblor de Cielo. It was at this time that he discovered that he was heir to the marquisate of
Casa Real.
The poet is survived by various family members including his daughter Raquel Huidobro, and grandchildren including Raimundo Rubio Huidobro, an accomplished contemporary painter and artist now living in NY.
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