On this page you'll find 9 example sentences with Picabia. Discover how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Picabia in a sentence
Using Picabia
- In the example corpus, picabia often appears in combinations such as: picabia and, francis picabia.
Context around Picabia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Picabia
- In this selection, "picabia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, francis, image, read, machine, first and continued stand out and add context to how "picabia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include above francis picabia continued his and breton read picabia s manifeste. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "picabia" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with picabia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dada and Surrealism main Image:Picabia Machine Turn. (8 words)
Duchamp and Picabia first met in September 1911 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, where they were both exhibiting. (20 words)
Richter dismisses this account, indicating that Tzara actually walked from Gare de l'Est to Picabia's home, without anyone expecting him to arrive. (24 words)
Marc Lowenthal, translator's introduction to Francis Picabia 's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation New York Dada had a less serious tone than that of European Dadaism, and was not a particularly organized venture. (38 words)
Gendron, p.77; Richter, p.182 A scandal erupted when Breton read Picabia's Manifeste cannibale ("Cannibal Manifesto"), lashing out at the audience and mocking them, to which they answered by aiming rotten fruit at the stage. (37 words)
Duchamp showed a larger version of his Young Man and Girl in Spring 1911, a work that had an Edenic theme and a thinly veiled sexuality also found in Picabia's contemporaneous Adam and Eve 1911. (36 words)
Example sentences (9)
Dada and Surrealism main Image:Picabia Machine Turn.
Duchamp and Picabia first met in September 1911 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, where they were both exhibiting.
Duchamp showed a larger version of his Young Man and Girl in Spring 1911, a work that had an Edenic theme and a thinly veiled sexuality also found in Picabia's contemporaneous Adam and Eve 1911.
Gendron, p.77; Richter, p.182 A scandal erupted when Breton read Picabia's Manifeste cannibale ("Cannibal Manifesto"), lashing out at the audience and mocking them, to which they answered by aiming rotten fruit at the stage.
It mirrored the attitudes of the "artists of Passy", which included Picabia and the Duchamp brothers, to whom sections of it were read prior to publication.
Marc Lowenthal, translator's introduction to Francis Picabia 's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation New York Dada had a less serious tone than that of European Dadaism, and was not a particularly organized venture.
Richter dismisses this account, indicating that Tzara actually walked from Gare de l'Est to Picabia's home, without anyone expecting him to arrive.
Richter, p.184-186 Péret immediately upset Picabia and Tzara by refusing to make the trial an absurd one, and by introducing a political subtext with which Breton nevertheless agreed.
With works on paper like Machine Turn Quickly, (above) Francis Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zurich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art.
Common combinations with picabia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: