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While Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are generally acknowledged as the founders of the twentieth-century movement that became known as Cubism, it was Jean Metzinger, together with Albert Gleizes, that created the first major treatise on the new art-form, Du " Cubisme ", in preparation for the Salon de la Section d ' Or held in October 2012.

Du " Cubisme ", published the same year by Eugène Figuière in Paris, represented the first theoretical interpretation, elucidation and justification of Cubism, and was endorsed by both Picasso and Braque.

Du " Cubisme ", which preceded Apollinaire's well known essays, Les Peintres Cubistes ( 1912, published 1913 ), emphasized the Platonic belief that the mind is the birthplace of the idea: " to discern a form is to verify a pre-existing idea.

" Du " Cubisme " quickly gained popularity running through fifteen editions the same year and was translated into several European languages including Russian and English ( the following year ).