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Albert Gleizes began to paint seriously in 1905, after fighting in World War I. With several friends, Gleizes founded a utopian community of artists and writers who scorned bourgeois society and sought to create a nonallegorical, epic art based on modern themes. Later in his career Gleizes executed several large commissions, including the murals for the Paris World's Fair of 1937.



