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Mechanical Forms, 1923. Fernand Léger. See all articles ›. Discover art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol & more in the Art Institute's collection spanning 5,000 years of creativity.
Today Léger’s personal papers and the largest collection of his diverse oeuvre are housed in the Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot, France, which opened in 1960, just five years after the artist died in his home at Gif-sur-Yvette..
Fernand Léger Carolyn Lanchner. Essays by Matthew Affron and Jodi Hauptman, 1998 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, 304 pages
Fernand Léger was a French painter who made a unique contribution to Cubism. Along with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Léger crafted idiosyncratic methods of depicting three-dimensional objects in pictorial space. “I organize the opposition between colors, lines, and curves,” he said of painting.
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Fernand Léger drew on Cubism to formulate his own unique approach to depicting the marvels of modern industrial life. Between 1918 and 1955 he made some two hundred printed images, the majority of which appeared as illustrations in books and journals.
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French pronunciation: [fɛʁnɑ̃ leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style.
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Pioneering French artist Fernand Léger painted the fusion of man and machine that characterised modern life in the early 20 th century. By integrating everyday imagery with bold compositions, Léger established his legacy as a forerunner to the Pop art movement.
