Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (1879 - 1953)

Born 22 Jan 1879 in Paris, Seine, France

Died 30 Nov 1953 at age 74 in Paris, Seine, France

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Biography

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Francis Picabia, 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 contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.^[1]

Painter. He was born François Marie Martinez Picabia of a Spanish father and a French mother. He was enrolled at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1895 to 1897. He began to paint in an Impressionist manner. From 1908, elements of Fauvism and Neo-Impressionism as well as Cubism and other forms of abstraction appeared in his painting, and by 1912 he had evolved a personal amalgam of Cubism and Fauvism. Picabia worked in an abstract mode from this period until the early 1920s. Picabia became a friend of Guillaume Apollinaire and Marcel Duchamp and associated with the Puteaux group in 1911 and 1912. He participated in the 1913 Armory Show, visiting New York on this occasion. In 1915, he began his machinist or mechanomorphic period, he and Duchamp, among others, instigated and participated in Dada manifestations in New York. He also wrote books of poetry and issues. In 1924, he returned to figurative art and he attacked André Breton and the Surrealis. During the 1930s, he became a close friend of Gertrude Stein.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia [1]
2. ↑ Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni [2]