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   Throughout his life and career, Fernand Léger consistently sought to capture in his art the dynamism and constantly changing conditions of modern life. He dabbled in painterly abstraction and with a mechanical aesthetic, exhibited with the Cubists and Purists, and experimented with media as diverse as painting, drawing, works on paper ...

2. www.tate.org.uk › art › artistsFive things to know about Fernand Léger | Tate

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   Nov 23, 2018 · Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures is on at Tate Liverpool 23 November 2018 – 17 March 2019. Book now. 1. He was a forerunner of Pop Art. [Léger is] a man so steeped in the world around him that his art cannot be separated from contemporary vision. Katherine Kuh, MoMa, 1953.

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   What is léger's'mechanical period'?

   • Léger's "mechanical period," which lasted from about 1918 to 1923, reflects his infatuation with the machine and with modern technology. Works from this period are characterized by recurring interchangeable geometric elements—among them, the cone, the cylinder, and the disk—that seem suspended in a completely flat or shallow, relief-like space.

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   What was Léger's view on modernity?

   • This is emphasised by his graphic use of line, fascination with machines and flattened, expressionless figures. Léger was impressed by the modern city with its advertising, artificial lights and methods of transportation. He explores this in his 1924 essay ‘The Spectacle’, which discusses his views on modernity.

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   When did Léger start experimenting with Cubism?

   • Léger debuted his own take on Cubism at the 1910 Salon d’Automne with Nudes in a Forest (1909–11; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo), which depicts figures in a landscape reduced to an assortment of geometric volumes.

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4. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionFernand Léger | Mechanical Elements | The Metropolitan Museum ...

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   His early mature work was strongly influenced by Cubism and, after serving in World War I, he developed a personal style of abstraction that further manifested the speed and dynamism of contemporary society. Léger's "mechanical period," which lasted from about 1918 to 1923, reflects his infatuation with the machine and with modern technology.

5. www.moma.org › interactives › exhibitionsMoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 1998 | Fernand Leger

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   No other major painter of his time welcomed elements from such a wide range of his era's artistic movements into his work: Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neo-Classicism, Social Realism--Léger used the sometimes arcane language of pictorial modernism to express the vernacular experience of twentieth-century ...

6. www.moma.org › artists › 6624Fernand Léger | MoMA

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   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.

7. www.francethisway.com › culture › legerFernand Léger, painter and French modern artist

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   Fernand Léger The French artist Fernand Léger is often misunderstood as a cubist, but his work spans the gamut of styles that inhabited the universe of modern art. His forty year career is represented by a diverse, evolving style that reflected the artistic issues of the time as new art movements were being born.

8. www.nationalgalleries.org › art-and-artists › artistsFernand Léger | National Galleries of Scotland

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   Born in Normandy, Léger settled in Paris in 1902, where he was apprenticed to an architect. His first cubist paintings date from 1909. He was a major figure in the cubist movement, although his work featured bold tubular shapes instead of the fragmentation seen in the paintings of Picasso or Braque. After the First World War, Léger became ...