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Abandoning industrial and urban forms, but still strongly imbued with the aesthetics of these themes, Fernand Léger returns in this work to the human subject, but not as an object of plastic admiration: “If an object, a subject, is beautiful, it is no longer raw material, it is plastic value, therefore unusable; we just have to look and admire."
Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art; Fernand Léger at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole; Artchive - Biography and images of Léger's works; Ballet Mecanique Archived 2010-01-30 at the Wayback Machine - Watch Fernand Léger's Short Film; Paintings by Fernand Léger [dead link ] (public domain in Canada)
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him.
In 1926, Petit settled in Paris, where she continued to specialize in sketches, drawing and painting, and joined the artistic environment which she shared with, among others, the French Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger, the Spanish Juan Gris, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, the British William Hayter and the American Alexander Calder. In the ...
Antibes. Petit port de Bacon: 1917 Antibes Bacon's small harbour: 515 More images: Antibes. Petit port de Bacon: 1917 Antibes Bacon's small harbour: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki 516 More images: Nature morte. Poivron. Aubergine: 1918 Still Life. Pepper. Aubergine: 517 More images: Nature morte. Coing et oranges: 1918 Still Life. Quince ...
Pierrot loses his fiancée when his "art"—of thievery—inspires him to reckless heights (Najac's L'Amour de l'art [1888]); he botches his own suicide and then, stuffing the noose in his pocket for luck, is emboldened to court Colombine ([Fernand] Boussenot's La Corde de pendu [1892]); he plays out a dream of heroic exploit that leads alla ...
His father, a schoolteacher, noticed his talent for drawing and encouraged him in this area. In 1863, Lhermitte joined as a student the Special School of Drawing and Mathematics, known as the “Petite École” (which became the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris) under the teaching of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Then, he entered the ...
The City (French: La Ville) is a 1919 painting by French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger. [1] The painting is Cubist in style and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [2] Albert Eugene Gallatin donated the piece to the museum in 1952 and it has also been shown at the Guggenheim Museum.