“In opposition to the immobile means of expression that the Academy was teaching, these painters threw down like a challenge a mobile expression; to volumes situated in space they preferred the living dynamism of coloured form in evolution.”

— Albert Gleizes

after 1920, The Epic, From immobile form to mobile form (1925)

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French painter 1881–1953

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