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View all 446 artworks. Fernand Leger lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Cubism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- Contrast of Forms, 1914
‘Contrast of forms’ was created in 1914 by Fernand Leger in...
- Propellers 2nd State
‘Propellers 2nd state’ was created in 1918 by Fernand Leger...
- Mona Lisa With The Keys
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- Three Women
‘Three Women’ was created in 1921 by Fernand Leger in Cubism...
- Soldier With a Pipe, 1916
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Though Fernand Léger built his reputation as a Cubist, his style varied considerably from decade to decade, fluctuating between figuration and abstraction and showing influence from a wide range of sources. Léger worked in a variety of media including paint, ceramic, film, theater and dance sets, glass, print, and book arts. While his style varied,...
Léger embraced the Cubist notion of fracturing objects into geometric shapes, but retained an interest in depicting the illusion of three-dimensionality. Léger's unique brand of Cubism was also dis...Influenced by the chaos of urban spaces and his interest in brilliant, primary color, Léger sought to express the noise, dynamism, and speed of new technology and machinery often creating a sense o...In its embrace of recognizable subject matter and the illusion of three dimensionality interspersed with or often simultaneous with experiments in abstraction and non-representation, Léger's work s...Childhood
Fernand Léger was born in rural Normandy on February 4, 1881 and raised by his family to take up a valuable trade, like his father who was a cattle dealer. While Léger was not encouraged to become an artist, when he showed talent for drawing, he was sent to apprentice with an architect in Caen. After finishing his military training in 1903, he studied in Paris at the École des Arts Décoratifs and Académie Julian. During his studies, he made a living doing architectural drawings and retouching...
Early Training
In 1909, Léger moved to Montparnasse and painted early Cubist works such as Le Compotier sur la Table (1909). Though he had met Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Rousseau, his closest friends were the writers Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants, Léger exhibited paintings that led to his recognition as a major Cubist artist, particularly Nudes in the Forest(1909-1910). He continued to exhibit at the Indépendants and at the Salon d'Automne until...
Mature Period
In 1920, Léger married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy and also met Le Corbusier with whom he would remain close friends. He aligned himself closely with the circle around Le Corbusier who were interested in machinery and depicting speed and motion. His clean, figurative style and retreat from abstraction in this period are evident in Three Women (Le Grand Déjeuner)of 1921. There are also obvious nods to Futurism in some of his works from this period. During the 1920s he branched out into other methods...
- French
- February 4, 1881
- Argentan, France
- August 17, 1955
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Along with Picasso, Braque, and Gris, Fernand Léger ranks among the foremost Cubist painters. By 1912, he had developed his own adaptation of Cubism. Utilizing pure color, he simplified the forms in his pictures into geometric components of the cone, cube, and sphere, leaving their contours unbroken.
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.
Dimensions: 98 1/4 × 72 1/4 in. (249.6 × 183.5 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection. Accession Number: L.2023.27. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Mar 19, 2016 · Two Women H… Fernand Léger (1881–1955) Tate. Born in France, the son of a farmer, Fernand Léger believed that his art was for the working man, to offer a relief from the fast pace of modernity. His experiences in war shaped his oeuvre and can be seen in the subtlety of an expression or shape.
