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Francis Picabia lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Dada and Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- French
- January 22, 1879
- Paris, France
- November 30, 1953
- Joyful Movement: Dances at The Spring [Ii], 1912
- The Height of Picabia’s Dada Period: Optophone I, 1922
- A Piece with Incredible Value: Francis Picabia’s Pavonia, 1929
- The Most Famous Transparency Piece: Aello, 1930
Another striking example of abstraction in Francis Picabia’s earlier work is his 1912 Dances at the Spring [II]. This work, comprised of flat, angular elements that give the overall appearance of women dancing, was first exhibited by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in New York in 1913. Though this exhibitionwas intended to introd...
Francis Picabia’s 1922 piece Optophone I represents the height of his Dada period. By the time he made this striking collage piece, the artist had befriended prominent figures like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. His art heavily featured elements of collage, mechanistic imagery, and Dadaist themes. Optophone I is a particularly famous Picabia silhouett...
By the time he created Pavonia in 1929, Francis Picabia was deeply involved in Surrealist art and was creating his Transparencies series. The Transparencieswere a series of works combining different sources of inspiration, ranging from Roman sculpture and paintings by masters like Rubens, Durer, and Titan to Catalan Romanesque frescoes Picabia had ...
While many of Francis Picabia’s Transparencies enjoyed success both during and after his lifetime, his 1930 painting Aello is arguably the most famous one. Because the piece was created in the later years of the series, it is one of the more intricate artworks in the collection. Aello has been displayed in many famous shows and collections, most no...
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Francis Picabia playful images of machine parts and colorful abstractions led the way for many future experimental artists.
- French
- January 22, 1879
- Paris, France
- November 30, 1953
Picabia made works like Tableau Rastadada, a mordant self-portrait, finding in Dada a provocative spirit that matched and extended his own. Picabia continued to cycle through styles and experiment with unorthodox materials.
Public collections holding works by Picabia include the Museum of Modern Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tate Gallery, London and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.
Francis Picabia ( French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
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