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Meaning of "Picabia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PICABIA

Picabia  [pɪˈkɑːbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PICABIA

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Picabia is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PICABIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Picabia

Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was 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. His was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

Definition of Picabia in the English dictionary

The definition of Picabia in the dictionary is Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PICABIA


conurbia
kənˈɜːbɪə
erbia
ˈɜːbɪə
euphorbia
juːˈfɔːbɪə
exurbia
ɛksˈɜːbɪə
herbier
ˈhɜːbɪə
hypercarbia
ˌhaɪpəˈkɑːbɪə
Nubia
ˈnjuːbɪə
Serbia
ˈsɜːbɪə
suburbia
səˈbɜːbɪə
terbia
ˈtɜːbɪə
urbia
ˈɜːbɪə
ytterbia
ɪˈtɜːbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PICABIA

Picard
Picardie
Picardy
Picardy third
picaresque
picarian
picaro
picaroon
Picasso

WORDS THAT END LIKE PICABIA

Bessarabia
British Columbia
cambia
Castellammare di Stabia
Colombia
Columbia
cumbia
District of Columbia
Federation of South Arabia
Gambia
homophobia
labia
Libia
Namibia
Rabia
Saudi Arabia
South Arabia
Swabia
tibia
Zambia

Synonyms and antonyms of Picabia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Picabia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PICABIA

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Translator English - Chinese

毕卡比亚
1,325 millions of speakers

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Picabia
570 millions of speakers

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Picabia
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Picabia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بيكابيا
280 millions of speakers

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Пикабиа
278 millions of speakers

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Picabia
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Picabia
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Picabia
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Picabia
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Picabia
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ピカビア
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Picabia
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Picabia
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Picabia
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Picabia
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पिकाबिया
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Picabia
70 millions of speakers

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Picabia
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Picabia
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Пикабиа
40 millions of speakers

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Picabia
30 millions of speakers
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Picabia
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Picabia
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Picabia
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Picabia
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Trends of use of Picabia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PICABIA»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Picabia

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2 QUOTES WITH «PICABIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Picabia.
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Peter Doig
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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Sigmar Polke
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICABIA»

Discover the use of Picabia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Picabia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures.
Francis Picabia, 2012
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The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in ...
A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.
George Baker, 2010
3
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia
This book focuses on the reinventions and transformations of antiquity in the work of four culturally and politically diverse artists between 1905 and 1935.
Christopher Green, 2011
4
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
This book examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism.
Jennifer Mundy, 2008
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
323- PICABIA, Francis. Unique eunuque. Avec un portrait de Vauteur par lui- meme et une preface par Tristan Tzara. 38p. Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1920 ( Collection Dada). 324. ARP, Hans. Francis Picabia. [i]p. New York, Pinacotheca Gallery, ...
Robert Motherwell, 1981
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Looking at Dada
As if in a game of one-upmanship, Picabia at first wanted to attach to the surface of Still Lifes: Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Cezanne, Portrait of Renoir (1920, plate 7) not the toy monkey we see here, but a real one. Picabia's use of a ...
Sarah Ganz Blythe, 2006
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Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934
Stein's ''Picabia Stanza,'' with Marcel Duchamp's translation, served as preface to the catalog. Stein had known Picabia since the early Saturday nights at rue de Fleurus,whichhe had attended withhis first wife, Gabrielle Buffet- Picabia, but ...
Ulla E. Dydo, William Rice
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Ezra Pound and Referentiality
his 1 937 essay "D'Artagnan Twenty Years After," Pound praises Picabia extravagantly: "Picabia is the only man I have ever met who has a genius for handling abstract concepts. [. . .] Picabia was the dynamic under Dada. It is you might say ...
Hélène Aji, 2003
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Dadaism
1953 in Paris Francis Picabia was the scion of a prosperous family from Cuba. Financially independent, he was an amateur painter in the true sense of the word , that is to say, he painted out of a love for painting. His second great passion was  ...
Dietmar Elger, Uta Grosenick, 2004
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Manifesto: A Century of Isms
1921 FRANCIS PICABIA is an imbecile, an idiot, a pickpocket!!! BUT he saved Arp from constipation! THE FIRST MECHANICAL WORK WAS CREATED BY MADAME TZARA THE DAY SHE PUT LITTLE TRISTAN INTO THE WORLD, ...
Mary Ann Caws, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICABIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Picabia is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World' Review
In “Wave” (1943-44), lyre-like fans of string transect the white-painted interior; a more compassionate geometry than Picabia's “Machinas,” in ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Letters: 'Revolutionary Roads'
In fact, I have found a New York Herald headline from 1915, announcing the arrival in New York of Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, that ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Frank Stella on the Colorado road trip that inspired his Copper …
Frank Stella, "For Picabia," 1961. Oil on canvas mounted on masonite. « 1 of 5 images; ». If You Go … Who: Frank Stella, in conversation with ... «Aspen Times, Jul 15»
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Portrait of the jeering artist as a young gent: Alexander Adams on …
Few artists were as disruptive and irreverent as Francis Picabia (1879-1953). As an original member of the Dada movement and then a ... «Art Newspaper, Jul 15»
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“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
Meanwhile, in New York, Rasula reports, “The New York Herald reported, under the racist headline, 'Mr. Picabia Paints “Coon Songs,”' that ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
6
Making Art Surreally Accessible
Francis Picabia painted Portrait of a Doctor in 1935 but substantially reworked it shortly after. These two separate campaigns of work exemplify ... «Google, Jul 15»
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The “Transparent” Works of Alexander Calder and Francis Picabia
The exhibition “Transparence: Calder/Picabia” at Hauser & Wirth Zürich brings together two modernist titans: kinetic sculptor Alexander Calder ... «Architectural Digest, Jul 15»
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Phillips' Opening Night Bucks Stiff Financial Market Winds
Of the German artist art star entries, Sigmar Polke's “Carnival” from 1979, a multi-image work in the style of Francis Picabia, sold to another ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jun 15»
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Making Art Surreally Accessibl
Francis Picabia painted Portrait of a Doctor in 1935 but substantially reworked it shortly after. These two separate campaigns of work exemplify ... «The Citizen, Jun 15»
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Book review: Historian Jed Rasula chronicles the history of an art …
Mr. Rasula then steps back to pre-war New York, where the Frenchmen Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia were already doing almost ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jun 15»

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