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The Blue Bird, Jean Metzinger, 1913. The Man in the Cafe, Juan Gris, 1912 |
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| Woman with the Phlox, Albert Gleizes, 1912 |
Picasso himself seems not to have been particularly influenced by thoughts of the new geometries and the Cubist discussions going on around him.
However, for the followers of Picasso who made up the "intellectual" wing of cubism and who thrived on theory about the new style, like Jean Metzinger, the fourth dimension may well have become a guiding principle.
He wrote:
Often Maurice Princet joined us ... He conceived mathematics as an artist and evoked continua of n dimensions as an aesthetician. He liked to interest painters in the new views of space ... and he succeeded in this.
Evidence suggests that both Metzinger and Juan Gris studied geometry with Princet in order to explore the possibilities offered by non-Euclidean geometry and the 4th dimension.
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The Blue Bird, Jean Metzinger, 1913. The Man in the Cafe, Juan Gris, 1912 |
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| Woman with the Phlox, Albert Gleizes, 1912 |
Albert Gleizes stated in an interview in 1912 "But, beyond the three dimensions of Euclid we have added another, the fourth dimension, which is to say the figuration of space, the measure of the infinite.
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