 250px|thumb|vicente huidobro vicente garcÃ­a-huidobro fernÃ¡ndez (january 10, 1893 &ndash; 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 where he was expelled for wearing a ring, which 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, "triÃ¡ngulo armÃ³nico" ("harmonic triangle"). in 1913, along with carlos dÃ­az loyola, he edited the three issues of the journal azul, and published both canciones en la noche and la gruta del silencio (the grotto 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-assÃ©ns, with whom he had exchanged letters since 1914. he settled in paris and published adÃ¡n (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 mirÃ³, max ernst, paul Ãluard and blaise cendrars. in october 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 ultraÃ­smo. 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, creaciÃ³n 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 crÃ©ation revue d'art. i
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