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The Double World (Picabia)

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The Double World
French: Le Double Monde
ArtistFrancis Picabia
Year1919
Mediumenamel and oil on cardboard
Dimensions132 cm × 85 cm (52 in × 33 in)
LocationMusée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

The Double World is an enamel and oil on cardboard painting by the French painter Francis Picabia, created in December 1919. It has been held in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris.[1]

History and description

Picabia was involved in the Dada movement. This provocative painting represents the letters "LHOOQ" inscribed vertically in black rings on a brown background, where more marginal textual indications take the form of the handling instructions that can be found on a cardboard box. This painting was inspired by L.H.O.O.Q., the famous work by Marcel Duchamp which parodies the Mona Lisa through an obscene pun. Picabia had rejected cubism after World War I, embrancing the apparent anti-art movement of dada, and his second exhibition of the Section d'Or, in 1920, shows his new artistic experiments. Picabia claimed that his geometric studies were capable of creating works in accordance with a universal harmony, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.[2]

Didier Ottinger states that "Just as Duchamp's Mona Lisa juxtaposes the image of the "mental thing" and the reminder of a very real physiology, The Double World (...) brings the symbol closer to a speculative, esoteric art (the golden ratio) and reminders of the prosaic materiality of the paintings (“high”, “low”, “fragile”...). Through this telescoping, Francis Picabia denounces the tartuffery of painters who are followers of what he calls, from then on, the “bronze section”.[3][4][5]

This painting was for a long time in the private collection of leading surrealist André Breton.[6]

References

  1. ^ The Double World, Musée National d'Art Moderne (French)
  2. ^ The Double World, Musée National d'Art Moderne (French)
  3. '^ Collection art moderne - La collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Brigitte Leal (ccordinator), Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2007 (Paris)
  4. ^ Jacquelynn Baas, Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life, MIT Press, 2019, pp. 167-168
  5. ^ R. Bruce Elder, DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015, pp. 174-175
  6. ^ The Double World, Musée National d'Art Moderne (French)
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