Fernand leger composition mecanique 1918 available for. It looks like we dont have any plot summaries for this title yet. After military service in versailles, yvelines, in 19021903, he enrolled at the school of decorative arts after his application to the ecole des beauxarts was rejected. During the late 1920s and 1930s he also painted single objects isolated in space and sometimes blown up to gigantic size, in the interwar years he expanded his range beyond easel. A dynamic, inventive, and influential modern artist, fernand legers works spans painting, printmaking, and film. Available for sale from stern pissarro, fernand leger, composition mecanique 1918, pen, ink and pencil on paper, 27. Working in paris during the height of cubism, fernand legers iconic style, with its emphasis on primary colors and rounded, massive forms, has become informally regarded as tubism. The end of the world filmed by the angel of notre dame 1919. After military service in versailles, yvelines, in 19021903, he enrolled at the school of decorative arts after his application to. He developed machine art, a style characterized by monumental mechanistic forms rendered in bold colours. Even at their most abstract, legers subjects are easier to recognize than the rigorous cubist dissections of pablo picasso and georges braque, and the. You can browse other available content for this title, such as.
February 4, 1881 august 17, 1955 was a french painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. Il a ete lun des premiers a exposer publiquement des travaux d. As a painter fernand leger exerted an enormous influence on the development of cubism, constructivism and the modern advertising poster as well as various forms of applied art. Fernand leger, born february 4, 1881, argentan, francedied august 17, 1955, gifsuryvette, french painter who was deeply influenced by modern industrial technology and cubism. You can view these marvelous works at our upper east side art gallery.
Fernand leger, nait le 4 fevrier 1881, a argentan orne. En 1967 nadia leger et georges bauquier en font, avec 348. Son art est base sur le contraste equilibre des couleurs et des formes, quil a developpe a une echelle monumentale. Search results for art by fernand leger stock photos and. He was the sixth of nine children of jules mourlot and clemence gadras. His modernist figures and cityscapes are among the most iconic works produced in the early 20th century. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism known as tubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. Fernand leger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. Even at their most abstract, leger s subjects are easier to recognize than the rigorous cubist dissections of pablo picasso and georges braque, and the accessibility and contemporary subject matter of. He also taught at yale university and at mills college in california from 1940 until 1945.
Fernand leger, les affiches originales lithographiees par mourlot. Release dates 0 also known as aka 0 release dates it looks like we dont have any. Fernand leger art et solidarite 1957 available for. Fernand leger, french artist, argentan, orne 1881 gifsuryvette cubism. In 1911, at the age of 16, he was admitted as a student to the ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs where he studied drawing. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the plot summary submission guide. Fernand mourlot was born on 5 april 1895 in paris, france.
Executed in 1953, this work is number 4 from an edition of 6 plus 2 artists proofs. Fernand legers paintings were static, with the precise and polished facture of machinery, and he had a fondness for including representations of mechanical parts. Fernand leger peintre biographie leger fernand, oeuvres. It looks like we dont have photos for this title yet.
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