[[Image:Metzinger cycle track.jpg|thumb|150px|
At the Cycle-Race
Track, 1912,
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
.]]Jean Metzinger (June 24,
1883 Nantes
, France
– November 3,
1956) was a French painter.
Initially he was influenced by
Fauvism and
Impressionism, but from 1908 he was
associated with
Cubism. Metzinger was a
member of the
Section d'Or group of
artists. Certain pieces such as
At the Cycle-Race track
suggest speed and movement, ideas which are linked to the
futurist movement.
Together with
Albert Gleizes,
Metzinger created the first major treatise on Cubism,
Du
Cubisme, in 1912.In the latter stages of his career, he moved
away from cubism towards
realism,
while still retaining elements of cubist style.
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