Tristan Tzara loved Picabia's work. So much so that he asked for contributions of poems and drawings for his publication. Through conversing this way they became good friends
The Zurich dada group, after Picabia's visit, regarded him as one of their own
"All Picabia's poems are a resounding incitement to cranial insurgence, to cubist hexahedrism and to landings in heroic loop-the-loop" - Isaac del Vando Villar
At most exhibitions Picabia's work was greeted with unanimous condemnation
Provocative and Scandalous
The comments, good and bad alike, excited the curiosity of the public at large and gained the group (and Picabia) a certain fame
