Francis Picabia: Our Heads are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction Umland Anne
By rejecting consistency, Picabia powerfully asserted the artist's freedom to changeIrreverent and audacious, restless and brilliant, Francis Picabia achieved fame as a leader of the Dada group only…
Specifikacia Francis Picabia: Our Heads are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction Umland Anne
By rejecting consistency, Picabia powerfully asserted the artist's freedom to changeIrreverent and audacious, restless and brilliant, Francis Picabia achieved fame as a leader of the Dada group only to break publicly with the movement in 1921. Moving between Paris, the French Riviera, Switzerland, and New York, he led a dashing life, painting, writing, yachting, gambling, racing fast cars, and organizing lavish parties. Like no other artist before him, Picabia created a body of work that defies consistency and categorization, from Impressionist landscapes to abstraction, from Dada to stylized nudes, and from performance and film to poetry and publishing. A primary constant in his career was his vigorous unpredictability.Illustrated with nearly 500 reproductions, this sweeping survey of Picabia's eclectic career embraces the challenge of his work, asking