Francis Picabia — Untitled (1939) | Modernist Abstract Print

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Francis Picabia — Untitled (1939) | Modernist Abstract PrintFrancis Picabia (18791953) was a French Cuban avant garde artist who moved through Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism with restless iconoclastic energy. A central figure of the international Dada movement, he published the Dadaist journal 391 and produced works of savage wit and philosophical provocation. His later works the Transparencies series, the floral abstractions, the erotic nudes chart a career of constant, deliberate, gleeful self

Working in the tradition of Soviet poster art — vivid flat colour

We print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper — the same stock museum studios use — through a twelve-ink process that holds colour the way memory holds detail: precisely

musical notations

and Vietnam copied these texts as acts of devotion

radiant halos

His works — intimate

His Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup (飲中八仙歌)

where it has hung ever since

directly inspired the visual language of Ridley Scott's Gladiator

Shoda Koho (1870–1946) was a Shin Hanga landscape printmaker whose nocturnal seascapes and moonlit scenes brought atmospheric delicacy to the movement's landscape tradition

"I'm interested in expressing basic human emotions

spent largely bedridden

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