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Jean Metzinger , 1883-1956, French painter and writer. With Gleizes he wrote Du cubisme (1912, tr. 1913), which presented the philosophical basis of the cubist aesthetic. In his paintings he employed cubist faceting and a stylized, richly detailed manner that was never wholly abstract. The Dancer (Albright-Knox Art Gall., Buffalo, N.Y.) is characteristic.

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Metzinger, Jean (b Nantes, 24 June 1883; d Paris, 3 Nov. 1956). French painter and writer on art. After passing through Neo-Impressionist and Fauvist phases he became one of the earliest devotees of Cubism and a central figure of the Section d'Or group. However, he is remembered less for his paintings than as the co-author with Gleizes of Du Cubisme (1912), the first book to be published on the movement.

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Metzinger, Jean (1883–1956). French painter and writer on art. After passing through Neo-Impressionist and Fauvist phases he became one of the earliest devotees of Cubism and a central figure of the Section d'Or group. However, he is remembered less for his paintings than as the co-author with Gleizes of Du Cubisme (1912), the first book to be published on the movement.

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