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Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Mechanical Elements. Artist: Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) Date: 1920. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 36 1/4 × 23 1/2 in. (92.1 × 59.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998.
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Similarly, Mechanical Elements from 1920 ( 1999.363.36) presents a stylized view of interlocking disks, pistons, and clamps in a compressed, chaotic compositional space that reflects the energy of modern life.
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Oct 14, 2023 · Fernand came up with a famous artwork known as a mechanical element. He developed this artwork when he was working with machines and modern technology during the mechanical period. His work is characterised by fantastic recurring interchangeable geometric elements that featured the cone, relief-like space, the cylinder, and a disk.
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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
• Description. • Background. • Analysis of The Mechanic. • The Classical Call to Order in France. Name: The Mechanic (1920) Artist: Fernand Leger (1881-1955) Medium: Oil painting on canvas. Genre: Modernist figure painting. Movement: Tubism. Location: National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa.
Mar 21, 2024 · Fernand Léger (born February 4, 1881, Argentan, France—died August 17, 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette) was a French painter who was deeply influenced by modern industrial technology and Cubism. He developed “ machine art,” a style characterized by monumental mechanistic forms rendered in bold colours.
