Section d'Or
The Section d'Or ("Golden Section" in French), also known as
Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of painters and critics
associated with an offshoot of Cubism known as Orphism (a term coined by the
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire). Based in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, they
were active from 1912 to around 1914, coming to prominence in the wake of their
controversial showing at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1911.
History
The movement began with an exhibition at the Galerie La Boetie in Paris
in 1912, which was also accompanied by publication of the treatise Du Cubisme
by Metzinger and Gleizes.[1] In addition to featuring works by the Duchamp
brothers, Raymond Duchamp-Villon,[2]Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, other
exhibitors included artists such as Archipenko, Roger de La Fresnaye, Albert
Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, André Lhote, Jean Metzinger, Jean Marchand
and Francis Picabia, among others. The opening address was given by Guillaume
Apollinaire.
The group's title was suggested by Jacques Villon, after reading a 1910
translation of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura by Joséphin Péladan.
Peladan attached great mystical significance to the golden section (French:
Section d'Or), and other similar geometric configurations. For Villon, this
symbolised his belief in order and the significance of mathematical
proportions, because it reflected patterns and relationships occurring in
nature.
The group adopted its name to distinguish itself from the narrower
definition of Cubism developed earlier by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in
the Montmartre quarter of Paris.
The onset of World War I in 1914 largely ended the group's activities,
which had never been much more than a loose association.
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