Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabiawas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 January 1879
CountryFrance
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.