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Picabia, Francis

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
French painter and sculptor. By 1909 he was working in a cubist style, but by the outbreak of World War I had already become a leading member of the Dada movement, which he helped to take to the USA. Appearing in many styles – usually provocative, anarchic, and experimental – his work reveals a preoccupation with machinery, often regarded as the enemy of life. An early painting, revealing both the influence of cubism and his preoccupations with machinery and the erotic, is I See Again in Memory my Dear Udnie 1913 (Museum of Modern Art, New York). It was during his second visit to New York 1915–16 that he joined with Marcel Duchamp in the Dadaist revolt, helping to publish the magazines 292 and 391 . After taking the movement to Barcelona, he worked in Zürich and then settled in Paris, where he participated in the surrealist movement. quotations Picabia, Francis…
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An anarchic and iconoclastic art movement, which began at Zürich in 1916 and arose from indignation and despair at the catastrophe of the First World War. Its supporters, writers and painters, sought to free themselves from all artistic conventions and what they considered cultural shams. Dadaism…
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An anarchic and iconoclastic art movement, which began at Zurich in 1916 and arose from indignation and despair at the catastrophe of the First World War. Its supporters, writers and painters, sought to free themselves from all artistic conventions and what they considered cultural shams. Dadaism…
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(born Jan. 22, 1879, Paris, France—died Nov. 30, 1953, Paris) French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Décoratifs, he painted for a time in an Impressionist and then a Cubist style. Picabia went on to combine the…
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(22 January 1879–30 November 1953; b. Francis-Marie Martinez de P.) Born in Paris of a Cuban father and a French mother, Picabia began as a writer, mostly of art criticism, before becoming a French artist, beginning as an Impressionist, becoming a C UBIST, and by 1912 following ROBERT DELAUNAY's…
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