1913, Francis Picabia, Udnie -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: Francis Picabia was inspired to paint Udnie by the performance of a Polish dancer on the ocean liner taking him to the United States.
Borrowing its dynamism from Futurism, this monumental work was intended as a painting of moods, orchestrating abstract forms in a centrifugal movement. The metallic reflections contrasting with the blue, green and ochre "shavings" shapes evoke the world of machines. The title could be an anagram of the name of musicologist Jean d'Udine, a theorist of sensory correspondences, of which this masterpiece is a major manifestation. Udnie created a sensation at the Salon d'Automne in 1913.
1913, Francis Picabia, Udnie -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: Francis Picabia was inspired to paint Udnie by the performance of a Polish dancer on the ocean liner taking him to the United States.
Borrowing its dynamism from Futurism, this monumental work was intended as a painting of moods, orchestrating abstract forms in a centrifugal movement. The metallic reflections contrasting with the blue, green and ochre "shavings" shapes evoke the world of machines. The title could be an anagram of the name of musicologist Jean d'Udine, a theorist of sensory correspondences, of which this masterpiece is a major manifestation. Udnie created a sensation at the Salon d'Automne in 1913.