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Fernand Léger
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French painter (1881–1955)
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Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter, film director, sculptor, and scenographer. Born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, he died in Gif-sur-Yvette. His artistic career was associated with the cubism and modernism movements, and he participated in World War I. Léger studied at the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. He was influenced by Henri Rousseau and was sponsored by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
His work encompassed portrait, figure, landscape, and religious painting, as well as sculpture and cinematography. Léger was a member of the American Abstract Artists and the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. He participated in documenta and Documenta III. Among his students were Mati Klarwein, Asger Jorn, Franciska Clausen, and Rita Kernn-Larsen. Notable works include *Cirque*, *F. Léger*, *Lunes en papier*, and *Les murs du silence*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1881
- Died
- 1955
- Works
- 115
Top works
- Cirque
- F. Léger
- Lunes en papier
- Fernand Léger
- Les murs du silence
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, France
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.
Known for
- Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 19302010
- Arrivée de Fernand Léger devant la gare du palais (Québec) — Self1945
- Ballet Mécanique1924
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The multistage 20 metre shuttle run test for aerobic fitness
· 1988 · cited 1,851x
- Synthesis and Design of Superhard Materials
· 2001 · cited 1,549x
- Toxicological Impact Studies Based on
<i>Escherichia</i>
<i>coli</i>
Bacteria in Ultrafine ZnO Nanoparticles Colloidal Medium
· 2006 · cited 1,523x
- Identification of Late-Onset Hypogonadism in Middle-Aged and Elderly Men
· 2010 · cited 1,279x
- A comparative study of LPWAN technologies for large-scale IoT deployment
· 2019 · cited 1,196x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “When one crosses a landscape by automobile or express train, it becomes fragmented; it loses in descriptive value but gains in synthetic value. The view through the door of the railroad car or the automobile windshield, in combination with the speed, has altered the habitual look of things. A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist; so much so that our language, for example is full of diminutives and abbreviations.”
- “The compression of the modern picture, its variety, its breaking up of forms.. .It is certain that the evolution of the means of locomotion and their speed have a great deal to do with the new way of seeing. Many superficial people raise the cry 'anarchy' in front of these pictures because they cannot follow the whole evolution of contemporary life that painting records.”
- “Naturally, in order to find in this break [in the visual perception] with time-honored habits a basis for a new pictorial harmony and a plastic means of dealing with life and movement, there must be an artistic sensibility far in advance of the normal vision of the crowd.”
- “The concept of Abstract painting is not a passing abstraction, good only for a few initiates, [but] the total expression of a new generation whose necessities it experiences and to all of whose aspirations it constitutes a response. (quote, 1920)”
- “This mechanical element, which one is sorry to see disappear from the screen, and which one is impatient to see again, is discreet; it appears only at intervals, and far off, like a spotlight that flashes on in a long, intermittent, harrowing drama of totally uncompromising realism. The plastic event is non-the less there and seems to me be laden with consequences both in itself and for the future. [on the filming of Abel Gance's La Roue, 1922]”
- “Instead of opposing comic and tragic characters [as Molière and Shakespeare] and contrary scenic states, I organize the opposition of contrasting values, lines, and curves. I oppose curves to straight lines, flat surfaces to molded forms, pure local colors to nuances of gray. These initial plastic forms are either superimposed on objective elements or not, it makes no difference to me. There is only a question of variety.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1881-02-04 ) February 4, 1881, Argentan , Orne, France
- Died
- August 17, 1955 (1955-08-17) (aged 74), Gif-sur-Yvette , France
- Known for
- Painting, printmaking , and filmmaking
- Movement
- Cubism , Modernism
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
10 objects attributed to Fernand Léger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger ( French: [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. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.
Biography
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