From the outset, he was blatantly fraudulent. Reeking of unabashed insincerity, he cannibalised every -ism he encountered, chewed it up and joyfully spit it back into the faces of the establishment. David Bowie used to say that he wasn’t really a rock star, but an actor playing a rock star. The same could be said for Picabia: he played the role of an artist, producing an oeuvre of spectacular fakeness—fake Cubism, fake Surrealism, fake Social Realism, fake Romanticism, and finally, in his last works, fake Dadaism. For a half century, Picabia brilliantly trolled the art world. Everything he did was purposefully “wrong.”

Thats great quote...Where come from...?
- anonymous (guest) 2-04-2017 11:47 am [add a comment]

sry. the brill kenneth goldsmith. see fixed link in last line. 

• Ah Kenny...yes I should have figured that....
  Brilliant ....true..
  sdb
  - anonymous (guest) 2-05-2017 12:27 pm [add a comment] [edit]