His work often draws from past art historical figures and popular culture to reflect on familiar narratives and frequently on aspiration and failure. (zero1magazine.com)
Picabia's consistent inconsistencies, his appropriative strategies, and his stylistic eclecticism, along with his skeptical attitude, make him especially relevant for contemporary artists, and his career as a whole challenges familiar narratives of the avant - garde. (arthaps.com)
As in many of the Untitled Film Stills, Sherman's use of familiar narrative tropes from Hollywood movies leads the viewer to complete the narrative as if filling in the next frame of a film. (icaboston.org)