
Dr. Stephanie Chadwick

Though Picabia borrows from the popular machine aesthetic, nothing about his apparatus is functional.

The avant-garde reached new heights by looking to “low” culture; after all, the whole thing started with a urinal!
Introduction to Dada

The artist mined the art of non-western cultures to locate “primal creativity”—whatever that means.
Jean Dubuffet, Childbirth

Dubuffet’s style is not what it seems, and his title takes on ironic overtones in light of its historical context.
Dubuffet, A View of Paris: The Life ...

Mondrian believed that abstraction provided a truer picture of reality than illusionistic depictions of objects.