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Frances Picabia He was a French avant-garde painter, poet, typographist and an artist who experimented using different styles

during his lifetime. He was born on January 22, 1879, in Paris, France. He dies on November 30, 1953.He started out as an

impressionist painter and he later explored Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.He was known for his colorful and rich

contrasts in his highly abstract planar compositions. After a while he turned his back on art establishments. He was known for his

colorful and rich contrasts in his highly abstract planar compositions.

Early Life An artist with mutliple styles, he was a gifted child. As a child he created his own paintings and would hang them up in

his home and remove the paintigns his father had. He attended art school called École des Artes Décoratifs in Paris to study art.

Francis Picabia got famous from impressionist paintings. After likeing the Cubist and Fauvist. Picabia created an abstract work

during Western paintings making it stand out so it made iut one of the most important historcial paintigns out there.

Work It was in te late 1980. when Picabia began to study art under Fernando Common and others that influenced him in the

pieces that he did. He was influenced mainly by impressionist paintings by Alfred Sisley. Since ghe liked to follow Sisley's work

many said that his work was unoriginal because he coppied Alfred. Later, he traveled to New York City and took part kin the avant-

garde movements that introduced him to Modern art that ended up changing his style in his art. He explored Dadism which went against cpaitalism making his art work at the time contrversial. he left the movement in 1921 due to the fact that it seemed old to

him and he no longer enjoyed it which made him return to his painting and explore Surrealism. He went through different

moven=menst and acts of paintsing often because he wnated to try new things.

History Picabia married Grabiele Buffet and had four children together. Picabia lost his wife due to her commiting suicide. It is said

that Picabia and Grabiele were not very good parents due to making excuses all the time. Picabia had left figurative art which is

what he originally started and later returned to it after leaving to explore Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. In 1911

Picabia joined a group known as Puteaux group who he met at an art studioin the western suburbs of Paris.

References-


 * 1) https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/anne-berest-explores-the-living-legacy-of-francis-picabia
 * 2) https://www.thecollector.com/francis-picabia-french-artist/
 * 3) Francis Picabia
 * 4) https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/francis-picabia