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  1. Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in ...

    • French
    • January 22, 1879
    • Paris, France
    • November 30, 1953
  2. Francis Picabia, 1912, La Source ( The Spring ), oil on canvas, 249.6 × 249.3 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris. Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Cuban father of Spanish descent. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent, whereas others ...

  3. Summary of Francis Picabia. Once known as "Papa Dada," Francis Picabia was one of the principle figures of the Dada movement both in Paris and New York. A friend and associate of Marcel Duchamp, he became known for a rich variety of work ranging from strange, comic-erotic images of machine parts to text-based paintings that foreshadow aspects ...

    • French
    • January 22, 1879
    • Paris, France
    • November 30, 1953
  4. In 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, “If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts.” 1 Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription. Although he remains best known as a Dadaist, his work ranged from ...

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    • Francis Picabia: Women with Bulldog, 1941. Though Francis Picabia enjoyed great success with the Transparencies series, he eventually followed his pattern and moved on to other artistic styles.
    • The Most Famous Transparency Piece: Aello, 1930. 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.
    • A Dark and Striking Transparency: Otaïti, 1930. Though Pavonia was a part of Transparency which involved vibrant colors, many of Francis Picabia’s pieces in this series were comprised of much darker tones.
    • A Piece with Incredible Value: Francis Picabia’s Pavonia, 1929. By the time he created Pavonia in 1929, Francis Picabia was deeply involved in Surrealist art and was creating his Transparencies series.
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  6. 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. When considering the many styles that Picabia painted in, observers have described his career ...

  7. Apr 2, 2024 · Francis Picabia was a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor, who was successively involved with the art movements Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Picabia was the son of a Cuban diplomat father and a French mother. After studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs (1895–97), he

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