Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20thcentury French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes, developed the theoretical foundations of Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neoimpressionism of Georges Seurat and HenriEdmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Czannian component, leading to some of the first protoCubist works.
Metzinger had already written in 1910 of mobile perspective, as an interpretation of what would soon be dubbed Cubism with respect to Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and Le Fauconnier . And Apollinaire would echo the same tune a year later regarding the observers state of motion. Mobile perspective was akin to cinematic movement around an object that consisted of a plastic truth compatible with reality by showing the spectator all its facets. Gleizes too, the same year, remarks, Metzinger is haunted by the desire to inscribe a total image He will put down the greatest number of possible planes to purely objective truth he wishes to add a new truth, born from what his intelligence permits him to know. Thusand he said himself to space he will join time. he wishes to develop the visual field by multiplying it, to inscribe them all in the space of the same canvas it is then that the cube will play a role, for Metzinger will utilize this means to reestablish the equilibrium that these audacious
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