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Francis Marie Martinez Picabia
(Jan. 22, 1879 Paris - Nov. 30, 1953 Paris) French Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Francis Marie Martinez Picabia was born François Marie Martinez Picabia in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the École des Arts décoratifs. Up to 1908 he painted landscapes in the manner of Camille Corot and the Impressionists, especially Alfred Sisley. He started to exhibit works in this style at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants of 1903.
His first solo show was held at the Galerie Haussmann, Paris, in 1905. From 1908, elements of Fauvism as well as Cubism and other forms of abstraction appeared in his oil painting. Then, influenced by Henri Matisse, Fauvism on one hand and by Cubism of Juan Gris and Picasso on the other, he tried to combine both movements and created bright-colored Cubists pictures unlike the somber monotone paintings of Cubism founders.
Picabia became a friend of Duchamp and associated with the Puteaux group in 1911. He participated in the 1913 Armory Show, showed his abstract oil paintings in New York on this occasion and frequenting avant-garde circles. During his second stay in NY in 1915, together with Marcel Duchamp and painters of American Avant-garde, they formed the NY society of Dadaists. The group published the periodical 291, to which Picabia contributed. 1917, Picabia published the first number of his periodical, which he called 391 to remind him of the American group's 291. In 391 he published his first "Mechanical Drawings". Leaving away the geometrical abstractions, Picabia started a series of compositions, in which colored copies of technical drawings suddenly obtained shapes of human figures. These "mechanomorphs" full of humor, teasing Dadaist sarcasm, demonstrate the paradox of visual perception, which could find an image in an abstract technical drawing. In the same year he went to the USA once more and there published further numbers of his periodical assisted by Marcel Duchamp. In Europe 391 was published until 1924.
In 1927 Picabia's period of so-called 'transparencies' started. The artist was looking for alternative methods to depict three-dimensional space without traditional rules of perspective. He developed this approach in his works, in which flat images of different scales overlay and interlace to show an object from a variety of viewpoints. When an eye accommodates to intersections of different planes and foreshortening, an illusion of three-dimensional space really appears. During the 1930s, he became a close friend of Gertrude Stein.
In 1934, the transparent images were forced out by heavy brutal shapes of pseudo classicism. Exaggerating the manner of the self-taught Primitivisms and Kitsch, Picabia parodied the "high" genres of allegory, nude portraiture and Mythological scenes. During World War II Picabia lived in Switzerland and in the south of France. By the end of World War II, Picabia returned to Paris. He resumed painting in an abstract style and writing poetry. In March 1949, a retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie René Drouin in Paris. Picabia died in 1953 in Paris. Picabia's art is appreciated by those who like inventiveness, adaptability, absurdist humor and disconcerting changes of style.
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