 He exhibited with the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow in 1910 and first showed his work in France—at the urging of Archipenko—in the Salon d'Automne of 1911.In 1913, Survage produced abstract compositions using color and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation.Entitled "Rythmes colorés", he planned to animate these illustrations by means of film to form "symphonies en couleur".