Section
d’Or
(Started: 1912)
(Ended: around 1914)
Section d’Or was
an art group of Cubist painters formed in Paris. The name of the group,
meaning “Golden Section” in French, refers
to a mathematical proportion. It is said that the proportion has a natural
aesthetic value since it is believed that it is in a harmony with the laws of
nature. Hence, the selection of the name conveys the thoughts of the Cubist
artist about geometric elements, and his interest in proportion and pictorial
discipline. In 1912, the exhibition of the group at the Galerie la Boétie in Paris, was also
the beginning of their movement. Other than this exhibition, they published a
magazine named “Section d’Or”. The activities of the group were ended with the
start of World War I in 1914.
Chief members of group included:
·
Robert Delaunay
·
Marcel Duchamp
·
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
·
Albert Gleizes
·
Juan Gris
·
Roger de La Fresnaye
Marcel
Duchamp
The
French artist was a painter, a sculptor, and an author. After experimenting
with Fauvism, and then Cubism, he approached to Futurism with his painting
“Nude Descending a Staircase”. Starting from 1913, he practiced his first
“readymade”s, which is a term created by him referring to the ordinary,
everyday objects that are to be modified in order to become artworks. He
refused totally visual, which he named “retinal pleasure” since he found it
superficial and shallow. Still, he dedicated himself to study of perspective
and optics, reinforcing his experiments with dynamic devices, which expressed
his continuing concern with the depiction of motion and machines.
Sources:
http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/duchamp.htm
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