~SECTION D'OR~

My brief summary of section d'Or: The section d'Or ("Golden Section"), was a collective of painters, sculptors and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs of Puteaux and Courbevoie, the group was active from 1911 to around 1914. Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Fernand Léger, created a scandal that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public for the first time.

Section d'Or (Golden Section): Group of French painters who worked in loose association between 1912 and 1914, when the First World War brought an end to their activities. The name, which was also the title of a short-lived magazine published by the group, was suggested by Jacques Villon in reference to the mathematical ratio known as the Golden Section, reflecting the interest of the artists involved in questions of proportion and pictorial discipline. Other members of the group (who held one exhibition, in 1912) included Delaunay, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Gleizes, Gris, Léger, Metzinger, and Picabia. The common stylistic feature of their work was a debt to Cubism and several of them worked in the Orphist style.

IAN CHILVERS. "Section d'Or." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved June 06, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-SectiondOr.html

Jean Metzinger
Jean Metzinger, before 1913
Birth name	Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger
Born	24 June 1883
Died	3 November 1956 (aged 73)
Nationality	French
Field	Painting, Drawing, Writing, Poetry
Movement	Neo-Impressionism, Divisionism, Fauvism, Cubism
Works	Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscpe (1905-1906), Portrait d'Apollinaire (1910), Nu (1910), La Femme au Cheval-The Rider (1911-12), Dancer in a Cafe (1912), L'Oiseau bleu (1913)

Jean Metzinger: (Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger) (June 24, 1883 – November 3, 1956) was a French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, born in Nantes, France. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, appear to have been influenced by the Neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist (Chromoluminarism) and Fauvism styles. From 1908 he was directly involved with Cubism, both as an artist and principle theorist of the movement. Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme" in 1912. Metzinger was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists.