Paintings by the salon cubists were frequently monumental in scale andДepicted public events or well-known edifices identified with modern Paris or the history of France. Typical works by these cubists include Delaunay's Eiffel Tower (1911), Gleizes's Chartres Cathedral (1912), LГ©ger's The Wedding (1911), and Le Fauconnier's Abundance (1910вЂ“1911). At the 1911 Salon des IndГ©pendants, these artists proclaimed their allegiance to cubism by exhibiting together, with the addition of French painters Robert Delaunay (1885вЂ“1941), Marie Laurencin (1885вЂ“1956), and Fernand LГ©ger (1881вЂ“1955). The critic Roger Allard identified Henri Le Fauconnier (1881вЂ“1946), Gleizes, and Metzinger as the progenitors of a new movement in his review of the 1910 Salon d'Automne. They became the public face of the cubist movement and are frequently referred to as the salon cubists. The Puteaux group regularly exhibited paintings of epic and sometimes allegorical subjects in Paris's large public venues, such as the spring Salon des IndГ©pendants and the fall Salon ДЏAutomne.

These two groups differed in their exhibition practices and their choice of subject matter. In December 1908, Metzinger exhibited paintings alongside those of Braque and Picasso at Wilhelm Uhde's small Notre-Dame-des-Champs gallery. Metzinger lived in Montmartre from 1906 to 1912, and from 1907 on he frequented Picasso's studio and befriended Braque, poet Max Jacob (1876вЂ“1944), Salmon, and Apollinaire. The French painter Jean Metzinger (1883вЂ“1956) moved between these two circles. The second cubist group frequently met in Puteaux, a town on the outskirts of Paris where other key figures lived, including French artist Albert Gleizes (1881вЂ“1953) and the Duchamp-Villon brothers: Gaston Duchamp (pseudonym Jacques Villon, 1875вЂ“1963), Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876вЂ“1918), and Marcel Duchamp (1887вЂ“1968). The Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1881вЂ“1973), French artist Georges Braque (1882вЂ“1963), and their circle-including the poets/art critics Guillaume Apollinaire (1880вЂ“1918) and AndrГ© Salmon (1881вЂ“1969)-congregated in the Bateau Lavoir (Washboat), a building on the slopes of Montmartre where Salmon, Picasso, and the Spanish artist Juan Gris (1887вЂ“1927) had their studios. There were two groups of cubists who interacted in various ways. Cubism is the name given to one of the seminal movements in modern art in the early twentieth century.

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