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Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.[1][2][3][4] His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907, Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works. From 1908, Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His early involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and an important theorist of the movement. The idea of moving around an object in order to see it from different view-points is treated, for the first time, in Metzinger's Note sur la Peinture, published in 1910.[5] Before the emergence of Cubism, painters worked from the limiting factor o

Jean Metzinger - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia French painter and writer (1883–1956) Jean Metzinger Metzinger, before 1913 Born Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger ( 1883-06-24 ) 24 June 1883 Nantes , France Died 3 November 1956 (1956-11-03) (aged 73) Paris, France Education École des Beaux-Arts (Nantes) Known for Painting, drawing, writing, poetry Notable work Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape (1905–06) Coucher de soleil no. 1 (1905–06) La danse, Bacchante (c. 1906) Nu à la cheminée (1910) Le goûter (Tea Time) (1911) La Femme au Cheval (1911–12) Dancer in a café (

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