"Picabia, who at first extracted a profuse plastic inspiration from machines, adopts thereafter [after World War 1.] aspects which are directly photographic; but emptied of their utilitarian signification, Picabia charges them with a new reality, of which he alone is the arbiter, creating an atmosphere of migration which surrealism systematised."
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Picabia's first wife was here commenting on his use of machines in his paintings after c. 1918
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Francis Picabia
1879 – 1953
eigentlich:Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia
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