Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity

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Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity is a 1915 mechanomorphic painting by Francis Picabia that satirically depicts a nude woman as a spark plug, exemplifying his Dadaist critique of modernity and sexuality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mechanomorphic painting
painting
artForm oil painting
artisticStyle Dadaist
mechanomorphic
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Francis Picabia NERFINISHED
creatorGender male
creatorNationality French
depicts nude woman
spark plug
genre satirical art
hasPart mechanical forms
textual inscription
hasTheme dehumanization
eroticism
mechanization of the body
hasTitle Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity NERFINISHED
inception 1915
influencedBy Dada anti-art ideas
early 20th century industrialization
machine culture
languageOfTitle English
mainSubject machine aesthetics
modernity
sexuality
movement Dada NERFINISHED
notableFor Dadaist critique of sexuality
equating a woman with a spark plug
use of mechanical imagery in portraiture
partOf Francis Picabia oeuvre NERFINISHED
period early 20th century art
satirizes conventional portraiture
sexual objectification
technological modernity

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Francis Picabia notableWork Portrait of a Young American Girl in a State of Nudity