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Leigha Nortier
\nEnglish 394
\nFrancis Picabia (*Second Draft)
\n\tFrancis Picabia [1879- 1953] was an eclectic Avant-Garde artist and writer, who mostly worked in the shadows of Marcel Duchamp. The French-born artist was most famous for his work in Cubism and Dadaism but his work was not restricted to those movements (Camfield 21). Some of his most famous paintings and sketches included La Source, Udnie, Voil\u00e0 Haviland\u00a0(La po\u00e9sie est comme lui), and La Saint Vierge (The Blessed Virgin).
\n\tPicabia was born in Paris on January 22nd, 1879 to Cuban-born Spaniard Francisco Vicente Martinez Picabia and French Native Marie Cecile Davanne (Camfield 1). In his early adulthood, Picabia studied at the \u00c9cole des Arts Decoratifs, where other famous artists such as Vincent van Gogh\u00a0and\u00a0Henri Toulouse-Lautrec studied (\u201cFrancis Picabia Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works\u201d). He married Gabrielle Buffet in 1909 (Camfield 3). Shortly after his marriage, starting during his honeymoon visit to Spain, Picabia faced an artistic identity crisis that steered him towards avant-garde art (Camfield 17).
\n\tAlthough impressionism and landscape paintings, in particular, were what originally earned him his fame, cubism and abstract art were both dominant parts of Picabia\u2019s early art career. In 1911, he became affiliated with the Cubist group \u201cPuteaux\u201d, which is where some sources say he met lifelong friend Marcel Duchamp (Rosenthal 269). Picabia\u2019s interest in geometry within cubism is what eventually led him to the Dadaist movement.
\n\tPicabia and Duchamp are seen as the two true founding fathers of Dadaism (Hopkins 15). In the fall of 1911 Picabia and Duchamp had established a strong relationship after both were involved with an organization known as the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Normande de Peinture Moderne (Camfield 21). The dynamic duo impacted each other\u2019s works for the rest of their lives and often worked in the same artistic circles. Picabia and Duchamp spread the Dada movement to American when they visited New York City in 1913, and were a pa[pdfjs-viewer url=”http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.suzannechurchill.com%2Feng394-f17%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F09%2FFrancis-Picabia-Second-draft-turn-in-point-pdf-1.pdf” viewer_width=100% viewer_height=1360px fullscreen=true download=true print=true]

Francis Picabia Second draft (turn in point) pdf<\/a><\/div>rt of the Armory Show, among other famous Avant-Garde social circles.
\n\tIn 1915, in the wake of the American Industrial Revolution, Picabia became obsessed with mechanics and machinery. He loved to draw parallels between humankind and technology.
\n\tPicabia, despite not truly being a household name artist, was the \u201cleading spokesperson for the avant-garde movement on American soil\u201d (Umland). But beyond New York City, with Dada, in particular, Picabia really made a significant impact with not only spreading it to Zurich, Barcelona, and Paris but also by being one of the first artists to really test the limits and define what Dadaism was. Because the movement was so abstract and conceptually new, founding artists such as Picabia laid down precedents for the movement, breaking barriers of previous art canons of the time. La Saint Vierge is often seen as the groundbreaking piece of art that really started Dadaism or helped to bring the movement to the public eye (Hopkins 15).
\n\tDuring World War I Picabia sought refuge in Barcelona, Spain, causing yet another chapter in his art career. Outside of Dadaism, Picabia became inspired by \u201cSpanish subjects, Romanesque and Renaissance sources\u201d (\u201cFrancis Picabia Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works\u201d), which eventually translated into his works in the 1920s referred to as the Transparencies. The Transparencies were a collection of works \u201cin which outlines of figurative images from ancient Catalan and renaissance art are overlaid with animal, floral and cosmological references\u201d (Francis 243). Also, while working in Barcelona, Picabia worked on and published a magazine called 391, to further spread the Avant-Garde movement.
\n\tPicabia\u2019s art career, which lasted around 50 years, was \u201cmarked by a consistent inconsistency\u201d (Dup\u00eacher). Because he often struggled with his own identity and beliefs, it showed in his art, which is why we see him dabble in so many different art forms through various passages of his life. Picabia died in 1953, in the same home he was born in Paris (\u201cFrancis Picabia: Biography\u201d). <\/p>\n

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\n\u2663\tName: Francis Picabia (Camfield 1)
\n\u2663\tDate of Birth: January 22nd 1879 (Camfield 1)
\n\u2663\tPlace of Birth: Paris, France (Camfield 1)
\n\u2663\tDate of Death: 1953
\n\u2663\tPlace of Death: Paris, France
\n\u2663\tCountry of origin, citizenship: France (Camfield 1)
\n\u2663\tGender: Male
\n\u2663\tRace: White (*His father was a Cuban born-Spaniard) (Camfield 1)
\n\u2663\tKind of Artist\/Cultural worker (writer, painter, photographer, gallery director, editor, etc.): Writer (mostly poetry) and artist (most prominently painting)
\n\u2663\tAddress in Florence or New York:
\nFrom my extensive research, there appears to be no recorded address of his location in New York City, but there is an address of where he was born (in 1879) in Paris, France, the same place where he died (in 1953): 82 rue des Petits Champs (\u201cFrancis Picabia: Biography\u201d).
\n\u2663\tDates & Places of Overlap with Loy:
\n1917 in New York, both were published in the Blind Man.
\n\u2663\tAvant-garde movements the figure was associated with [list]
\no\tCubism (Camfield 17)
\no\tFauvism (Camfield 17)
\no\tFuturism (Camfield 17)
\no\t\u201cCorrespondance\u201d (Camfield 21)
\no\tSymbolism (Camfield 22)
\no\tPointillism
\no\tSurrealism
\no\tDadaism
\n\u2663\tBrief summary of the figure\u2019s Biographical\/Historical significance:
\nAlongside Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia is one of the founding names of Avant-Garde, in particular with Cubism and Dadaism. With Dada is particular Picabia really made a significant impact with not only spreading it through Zurich, Barcelona, Paris and New York City but also by being one of the first artists to really test the limits and define what Dadaism was. La Saint Vierge (The Blessed Virgin) is often seen as the groundbreaking piece of art that really started Dadaism or helped to bring the movement to the public eye (Hopkins 15).
\n\u2663\tBrief summary of the figure\u2019s Relationship to Loy:
\nBoth Mina Loy and Francis Picabia were heavily involved in the same circles, largely because both were good friends with Marcel Duchamp. Where they crossed paths the most as artists were in the New York Dada movement. They also both were apart of and published in the Blind Man (a Dada journal published in New York in 1917).
\n\u2663\tWhat was the nature of their overlap or connection?
\nThrough my research and studies of both Mina Loy and Francis Picabia, the two individuals never seemed to have a distinct relationship, but instead were both involved in the same \u201cintellectual groups\u201d of the Avant-Garde. The place where they overlap the most appears to be through Dada- a movement within Avant-Garde where both Picabia and Loy were heavily involved.
\n\u2663\tWas it social, literary, artistic? Were they involved in collaborative ventures (publications, exhibitions, performances, readings)?
\nTheir relationship appeared to be mainly artistic, but it can potentially be inferred that they had a friendship beyond that through their mutual friend Marcel Duchamp. Both Picabia and Loy did contribute to the Blind Man, as mentioned previously.
\n\u2663\tWhat other artists\/writers did your figure come in contact with?
\no\tMan Ray (Camfield 22)
\no\tAlfred Stieglitz
\no\tGuillaume Apollinaire (Camfield 17)
\no\tDerain (Camfield 18)
\no\tGeorges Braque (Camfield 18)
\no\tPierre Dumont (Camfield 21)
\no\tManzana Pissaro (Camfield 21)
\no\tMarcel Duchamp (Camfield 21)
\no\tAlbert Gleizes (Camfield 22)
\no\tJean Metzinger (Camfield 22)
\no\tFernand L\u00e9ger (Camfield 22)
\no\tRobert Delaunay (22)
\no\tHenri Le Fauconnier (Camfield 22)
\no\tPaul \u00c9laurd (15 of dada boys)
\no\tGertrude Stein (\u201cFrancis Picabia Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works\u201d)
\no\tJacques Villon
\no\tRoger de La Fresnaye
\no\tAndr\u00e9 Breton <\/p>\n

Works Cited
\nCamfield, William A. Francis Picabia, Princeton University Press, 1979.
\nDup\u00eacher, Natalie. \u201cFrancis Picabia.\u201d\u00a0The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, 2016, www.moma.org\/artists\/4607.
\n\u201cFrancis Picabia: Biography\u201d\u00a0Site Officiel De Francis Picabia, Comit\u00e9 Picabia, 2016, www.picabia.com\/about-picabia.
\nHopkins, David, and Paul Sloman. \u201cDada’s Potency: Francis Picabia’s the Blessed Virgin and the Dialogue with Duchamp.\u201d\u00a0Dada’s Boys: Masculinity after Duchamp, 2007.
\nFrancis, Mark. \u201cFrancis Picabia. Paris.\u201d\u00a0The Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, no. 1200, 2003, pp. 242\u2013244.\u00a0JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/3100654.
\n\u201cFrancis Picabia Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works\u201d\u00a0The Art Story: Modern Art Insight, The Art Story Foundation, 2017, www.theartstory.org\/artist-picabia-francis.htm.
\nUmland, Anne, director.\u00a0How to See the Artist: Francis Picabia.\u00a0Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, 20 Jan. 2017, www.moma.org\/artists\/4607.<\/p>\n

Works Considered
\nBelli, Gabriella. \u201cThe End of the Artistic Object.\u201d\u00a01900-1919, The Avant-Garde Movements: Art of the Twentieth Century, Skira, 2006, pp. 397\u2013412.
\nCamfield, William A. \u201cThe Machinist Style of Francis Picabia.\u201d\u00a0The Art Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 3\/4, 1966, pp. 309\u2013322.\u00a0JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/3048388.
\nCaws, Mary Ann.\u00a0Manifesto: a Century of Isms. University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
\nHenderson, Linda Dalrymple. \u201cFrancis Picabia, Radiometers, and X-Rays in 1913.\u201d\u00a0The Art Bulletin, 71, no. 1, 1989, pp. 114\u2013123.\u00a0College Art Association, doi:10.1080\/00043079.1989.10788481.
\nHopkins, David, and Paul Sloman. \u201cDada’s Potency: Francis Picabia’s the Blessed Virgin and the Dialogue with Duchamp.\u201d\u00a0Dada’s Boys: Masculinity after Duchamp, 2007, pp. 15\u201343.
\n\u201cThe Blind Man.\u201d\u00a0Blindman, The University of Iowa Libraries, sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu\/dada\/blindman\/index.htm.\u00a0The online archives resource for the Blind Man, originally published by the New York Dadaists, in New York City in 1917.
\n\u201cThe Blind Man.\u201d\u00a0Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 June 2017, en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blind_Man.
\n\u201cFrancis Picabia.\u201d\u00a0Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Picabia.
\nStamberg, Susan. \u201cIn 1913, A New York Armory Filled with Art Stunned the Nation.\u201d\u00a0NPR, National Public Radio, 11 Nov. 2013, www.npr.org\/2013\/11\/11\/243732924\/in-1913-a-new-york-armory-filled-with-art-stunned-the-nation.<\/p>\n

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