Never had the critics been so violent as they were at that time. From which it became clear that these paintings - and I specify the names of the pai… - Albert Gleizes

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Never had the critics been so violent as they were at that time. From which it became clear that these paintings - and I specify the names of the painters who were, alone, the reluctant causes of all this frenzy: Jean Metzinger, Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and myself - appeared as a threat to an order that everyone thought had been established forever.