Francis Picabia 1879-1953 Oil Painting Canvas Abstract Still Life Modernist Dada

Description

An amazing modernist abstract by Francis Picabia. Originally purchased from Johanesburg, Germany. Picabia was active and lived in New York & France. Known for Modernist "dada" paintings.



Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism, but the ideas it gave rise to have become the cornerstones of various catogeries of modern and contemporary art.



French painter Francis Picabia is best known as an early pioneer of the Dada movement. Between 1915 and 1917, he lived periodically in New York where he was active in the New York Dada group. There he met Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray, Walter Arensberg and Beatrice Wood, among others. Picabia was involved with a number of Dada publications, including '391'. He traveled between the New York, Zurich, and Paris Dada groups taking ideas from one place to the others.



Francis Picabia was born in Paris in 1879 into a family of mixed parentage with a French mother and Spanish father. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the École des Arts Décoratifs of Paris. Up to 1908 he painted landscapes in the manner of Corot and the Impressionists, especially Sisley. Then, influenced by Matisse's Fauvism on one hand and by the Cubism of Braque and Picasso on the other, Picabia tried to combine both movements and created bright-colored Cubist pictures unlike the somber monotone paintings of Cubism's founders.




Synoposis from

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm



Biography from www.Askart.com

Condition

Good OverallCondition

Dimensions

23.5" x 28.5" x 1.25"
Sans Frame - 21.5" x 26"
(L x W x H)