Torres-García traveled to Brussels to paint a pavilion at the Brussels International World Fair. During a prolonged stay in Paris, he visited friends, museums and galleries. Torres-García's art later shared aspects of cubism and the theories exemplified in "Du "Cubisme"" (published in 1912), indicated by the 1912 Paris exhibition organized and named by the Section d'Or. During his first trip to Italy and Switzerland, Torres-García was exposed to futurism.