Jean Metzinger (Nantes, 1883 – Paris, 1956) French painter, poet, theorist, writer and critic

Founder of cubism

A painter, man of letters and poet, after an early period with the fauves and divisionism, Jean Metzinger joined the Montmartre circle, and together with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso he was one of the founders of cubism.

Du Cubisme

Indeed, his 1912 essay Du Cubisme was the very first theoretical article to appear on the movement; in it, he stressed the geometric decomposition of objects and figures, observed from various viewpoints at the same time.

Like many other colleagues, after the First World War Jean Metzinger brought his cubist experience to an end, returning to more constructivist, highly defined forms.

 

Tea Time (Woman with a Teaspoon) by Jean Metzinger

Rechristened by a critic, at the time of its exhibition, the “Mona Lisa of Cubism”, the work displays the French artist’s elegant mediation between the austerity of Analytical Cubism and the tastes of the public, who while appreciating the experimentalism of his simultaneous vision from various points of view nevertheless liked to recognize a solid realistic component.

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