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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.
Francis-Marie Martínez Picabia ( París, 22 de enero de 1879- Ib., 30 de noviembre de 1953) fue un pintor francés . Biografía. Picabia descendía por vía paterna de una familia arribada a Cuba procedente de Galicia; su madre era vascofrancesa. Los padres de Picabia se conocieron en París cuando su padre trabajaba como diplomático en Francia.
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.
Francis Picabia. 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.
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 of Conceptual art.
Jan 20, 2017 · Among the great modern artists of the past century, Francis Picabia also remains one of the most elusive. In this short film, MoMA curator Anne Umland explains how Picabia vigorously avoided...
Francis Picabia (born January 22, 1879, Paris, France—died November 30, 1953, Paris) was a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor, who was successively involved with the art movements Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism.
From the 1920s until his death in 1953, Picabia’s art and life went through a number of dramatic shifts—from figurative painting to abstraction and back again, to name but one—appropriate for this most protean member of the avant-garde. For more information, see: Baker, George.
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.
Francis Picabia was born in Paris, January 22, 1879, 82 rue des Petits Champs, the same house where he dies, November 30, 1953. During the seventy four intervening years, Picabia explores most of the artistic movements of his time, a feat as exceptional as the epoch itself.