Fernand Leger

Fernand Leger was a French painter, trained initially as an architectural designer. He studied in various Paris studios between 1903 and 1907 when, like many others, he discovered Cezanne. For the next seven years, reacting against the diffuseness of his early Neo-Impressionist manner, he worked towards a concentrates structural strength in his painting. His early cubist paintings (nicknamed "tubist") differed form mainstream in their volumetric solidity, in their deep space and in a Futurist "tendency towards the dynamic". His major works are of contemporary subjects, simple in their black contours and bold color areas and endowing the ordinary man with a 19th-century monumentality, e.g. Les Loisens (1948 - 1949). He also collaborated on a film, La Ballet mecanique (1923 - 1924) with Man Ray, and designed for stained glass, mosaics, ceramics and the stage.

Fernand Leger Images:
Ball Bearing
Blue Guitar And Vase
Construction Workers
Propellers
The Campers