Canudo's primary contribution was the classification of the arts into a hierarchical system, positioning cinema as the ultimate fusion of two distinct groups: Spatial Arts (Plastic Arts): Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. Temporal Arts (Rhythmic Arts): Music, Poetry/Literature, and Dance.
Além disso, Canudo foi um incansável organizador da cena cinematográfica parisiense. Em 1921, fundou o Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA), o primeiro cineclube da história, concebido para reunir poetas, pintores, arquitetos, músicos e cineastas em torno do novo medium. Em 1922, lançou a Gazette des sept arts , uma revista que servia como órgão de difusão das ideias do manifesto. Essas iniciativas institucionais foram fundamentais para que a ideia do cinema como arte ganhasse legitimidade nos meios intelectuais parisienses e, depois, no mundo inteiro.
"A fábrica de imagens": o cinema como arte plástica e rítmica Manifesto Das Sete Artes Ricciotto Canudo.pdf
Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923) was an Italian-born intellectual, journalist, and musicologist who spent much of his career in Paris, the epicenter of the early 20th-century avant-garde. At a time when many critics dismissed the "cinematograph" as a fleeting fairground attraction, Canudo founded the to promote film culture and attract poets, painters, and musicians to the medium. The Core Philosophy: A Synthesis of Space and Time
Written in 1923, this manifesto was published four years before The Jazz Singer (the first talkie). Yet, Canudo already theorized that the Seventh Art would eventually absorb music completely, not as an accompaniment, but as a narrative organ. He was right. Canudo's primary contribution was the classification of the
: Diversos blogs dedicados à história do cinema e da arte disponibilizam links para download do manifesto, geralmente em formato PDF escaneado a partir de edições antigas. O site aphomoioo-1.weebly.com , por exemplo, contém um arquivo chamado o_manifesto_das_sete_artes.pdf , com o texto completo em português.
He viewed cinema as a "fabulous newborn of the Machine and Sentiment," combining technical scientific progress with artistic ideal to capture and fix the rhythms of light. The Classification of Arts Em 1921, fundou o Club des Amis du
Canudo's engagement with cinema predates the famous 1923 manifesto. In 1911, he published an essay titled La Naissance d'un sixième art. Essai sur le cinématographe (The Birth of a Sixth Art: Essay on the Cinematograph). At this stage, Canudo argued that cinema should be considered the "Sixth Art," a synthesis that would reconcile and sublate the five arts recognized by Hegel. In his own stirring language, he described cinema as . He saw it as a "plastic art in motion"—a dynamic art of space (like architecture, sculpture, and painting) that could also unfold according to the laws of time-based rhythmic arts (like music and poetry). He famously declared cinema to be "the fabulous newborn of the Machine and Sentiment".