The cinematic beauty of Picabia’s ‘La Corrida’

In this video, we encounter the cinematic painting ‘La Corrida’ (‘The Matador in the Arena’) by French artist Francis Picabia, completed in 1941.

Born in 1879 in Paris in an affluent setting, Picabia would become a major figure in the Dada movement, shifting chameleon-like through styles that included Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism, while paving the way for future iconoclastic painters.

Here, we discover that ‘La Corrida’ comes from one of Picabia’s most influential periods in terms of impacting contemporary art, learn how he assimilated mass culture images and find out how the artist’s work has overlaps with Quentin Tarantino’s iconic ‘Pulp Fiction’ promo poster.

Today, Picabia’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others.

View the original video here.

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