The exhibition illustrates the evolution of an artist always seeking new paths: from the first impressionist works to the last, more enigmatic, passing through a dadaist period. Picabia always crossed the confines of different schools with great ease: using photographs to paint landscapes to then seek to obtain through painting a synthesis of experiences without any defined model, attempting to capture of canvas the speed of the car and the city. Then with the discovery of the car, the turnaround which lead him to use industrial design as a pictorial resource. Then changing once more with the superimposition of classic models and finally reaching a kind of abstract art which doesn’t fit any category. A figure who underwent constant transformation who still fascinates artists today.
8.11.2002–16.3.2003
Francis Picabia
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
11, avenue du Président Wilson, Paris
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