Section d'Or
La Section d'Or (French for ' golden section ') was a cubist exhibition community founded by members of the Puteaux group . It began with an exhibition at the Galerie La Boétie, Paris, in 1912, which was accompanied by the publication Du Cubisme by Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes . Among other things, Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude, Descending a Staircase No. 2 was exhibited there. Further exhibitions followed in 1920 and 1925. A short-lived magazine was also published under the title La Section d'Or .
The name of the association was based on the illustrated work Leonardo da Vinci's Traité de la peinture , first translated into French by Joséphin Péladan and published in Paris in 1910 , which had a great influence on the Puteaux group. Jacques Villon himself confessed himself to being "an ardent admirer of Leonardo".
literature
- Lisa Werner: Cubism exhibits: The Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris 1912. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-496-01434-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 18 kB) by Metzinger and Gleizes from Cubism 1912 , accessed on July 21, 2010
- ^ Léonard de Vinci: Traité de la peinture. Traduit intégralement pour la première fois en français sur le codex vaticanus (urbinus), 1270, completé par de nombreux fragments tirés des ms. you maître, ordonné méthodiquement et accompagné de commentaires par Péladan. Delagrave, Paris 1910.
- ^ Philadelphia Museum to Jacques Villon