Max Morise (1900 – 1973) was a French artist, writer and actor, associated with the Surrealist movement in Paris from 1924 to 1929. He was friends with Robert Desnos and Roger Vitrac before they joined the Surrealist movement. He contributed articles to La Revolution Surrealiste and took part in a series of round table discussions held by the group, regarding the nature of sex. André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". African art had a profound and lasting influence on Western art, particularly in the early 20th century during the rise of modern art movements like Cubism Expressionism and especially Surrealism. Western artists were drawn to the abstract forms, symbolic representations, and expressive lines of African art, which they integrated into their own work, leading to significant stylistic changes.

Surrealist artist Max Morise (1900-1973) next to an African Baoulé mask in the studio of writer and Surrealist theorist André Breton in Paris circa 1926.

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