Picabia

British  

/ pikabja, pɪˈkɑːbɪə /

noun

1. Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements

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Example Sentences

She could at least count on the help of her mother, Picabia, a linguistics professor who had self-published a book through Porte-Plume about their ancestors who died during the Holocaust.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

By 1915, the exhibit catalog says, the avant-garde painter Francis Picabia had asserted that “the genius of the modern world is machinery, and that through machinery art ought to find a most vivid expression.”

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

In 1920, Francis Picabia, a Cuban-French Dadaist would follow Duchamp’s lead and participate in a performance purposefully designed to provoke the French art world.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2018

They were visibly influenced by the idealism and playfulness that undergirded early 20th century abstraction — from cubism and Russian constructivism to Duchamp, Picabia and Léger.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018

If Stravinsky is to be claimed for the movement, Jazz has its master: it has also its petits ma�tres—Eliot, Cendrars, Picabia, and Joyce, for instance, and les six.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive