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Art Review Make way for Francis Picabia, one of the grandest, most mordant exemplars of early modernism, and perhaps the least familiar.
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One of the most mordant juxtapositions was between "Covered Car — Long Beach, California," circa 1955/1956, a formal composition that Walker Evans might have taken, of a big sedan protected by a shiny sheet beneath two palm trees in crepuscular light; and "Car accident — U.S. 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona," 1955, a grainy shot that could have been cut from a newspaper, of four people standing by a body covered with a tarp as a powdery snow falls.
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He returned to England, after thirteen years of discord with the British residents in Odessa, in 1868, and contributed to the first numbers of Vanity Fair. In the following year he started a weekly journal of the most mordant type, entitled The Queen's Messenger, a prototype of the later "Society papers". On 22 June 1869, Murray was horsewhipped by Lord Carrington at the door of the Conservative Club in St. James's Street, for a slander upon his father, Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington. The assault was made under strong provocation.
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For the most part his sympathy with the Greco-Roman pagan tradition is only betrayed in his despondency over all things. But it is in his criticism of life that the power of Palladas lies; with a remorselessness like that of Jonathan Swift he tears the coverings from human frailty and holds it up in its meanness and misery. The lines on the Descent of Man (Anth. Gr. 10.45), fall as heavily on the Neo-Platonic martyr as on the Christian persecutor, and remain even now among the most mordant and crushing sarcasms ever passed upon mankind.
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