Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia made a successful start as an Impressionist landscape painter, then switched to Cubist abstraction, Dada machine drawings, layered transparent figures in the 1920s and, in the 1940s, kitsch nudes copied from soft-porn magazines, before ending with dot paintings. He changed style so often that it became his position: a refusal to settle. His late work strongly influenced painters of the 1980s.