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Fernand Leger village in the forest oil painting


village in the forest
Painting ID::  56488 		Artist: Fernand Leger
Painting: village in the forest
Introduction: mk247 1914,oil on canvas,29.125x36.325 in,73x93 cm,albright knox art gallery,buffalo ,ny,usa
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Fernand Leger the mechanic oil painting


the mechanic
Painting ID::  56528 		Artist: Fernand Leger
Painting: the mechanic
Introduction: mk247 1920,oil on canvas,36.25x27.5 in,92x70 cm,art gallery of ontario,ottowa,canada
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Fernand Leger motber and cbild oil painting


motber and cbild
Painting ID::  66378 		Artist: Fernand Leger
Painting: motber and cbild
Introduction: mk289 1922 oil on canvas offentliche kunst sammlung basel kunstmuseum gift of dr h c raoul la roche 1956
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Fernand Leger dancers witb key oil painting


dancers witb key
Painting ID::  66574 		Artist: Fernand Leger
Painting: dancers witb key
Introduction: mk289 1928 oil on canvas 73x92cm privare collection
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Fernand Leger Iwo women oil painting


Iwo women
Painting ID::  66575 		Artist: Fernand Leger
Painting: Iwo women
Introduction: mk1939 watercolor 65x50cm private collection
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     French Cubist Painter, 1881-1955,was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker,Leger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Leger initially trained as an architect from 1897-1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles in 1902-1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts; he also applied to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending what he described as "three empty and useless years" studying with Gerome and others, while also studying at the Academie Julian. He began to work seriously as a painter only at the age of 25. At this point his work showed the influence of Impressionism, as seen in Le Jardin de ma mere (My Mother's Garden) of 1905, one of the few paintings from this period that he did not later destroy. A new emphasis on drawing and geometry appeared in Leger's work after he saw the Cezanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne in 1907. In 1909 he moved to Montparnasse and met such leaders of the avant-garde as Archipenko, Lipchitz, Chagall, and Robert Delaunay. His major painting of this period is Nudes in the Forest (1909-10), in which Leger displayed a personal form of Cubism??his critics called it "Tubism" for its emphasis on cylindrical formsethat made no use of the collage technique pioneered by Braque and Picasso. In 1910 he joined with several other artists, including Delaunay, Jacques Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, Albert Gleizes, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin to form an offshoot of the Cubist movement, the Puteaux Group??also called the Section d'Or (The Golden Section). Leger was influenced during this time by Italian Futurism, and his paintings, from then until 1914, became increasingly abstract. Their vocabulary of tubular, conical, and cubed forms are laconically rendered in rough patches of primary colours plus green, black and white, as seen in the series of paintings with the title Contrasting Forms. Leger's experiences in World War I had a significant effect on his work. Mobilized in August 1914 for service in the French Army, he spent two years at the front in Argonne. He produced many sketches of artillery pieces, airplanes, and fellow soldiers while in the trenches, and painted Soldier with a Pipe (1916) while on furlough. In September 1916 he almost died after a mustard gas attack by the German troops at Verdun. . Related Artists to Fernand Leger : | Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | ENGELBRECHTSZ., Cornelis | William Alexander Coulter | John Christian Schetky | William Aikman |

 

 

 
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