Regarded as the forerunner of the up and coming pop art style, fernand leger was a french painter, sculptor and filmmaker, working in his own form of cubism, modified into a figurative style. He developed machine art, a style characterized by monumental mechanistic forms rendered in bold colours. Fernand leger estampes originales, lithographies et. Direction des affaires culturelles service arts plastiques galerie fernand leger 93 avenue georges gosnat 94200 ivrysurseine telephone. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free.
Fernand leger, french painter who was deeply influenced by modern industrial technology and cubism. En 1967 nadia leger et georges bauquier en font, avec 348. You can view these marvelous works at our upper east side art gallery. Leger began his career as a an artist by serving an apprenticeship in architecture in caen and working as a architectural draughtsman. Fernand leger at the engel gallery gouche on paper from the world paper exhibition original prints, antibes, france original prints for sale by fernand leger. By 1903, after a brief stint in the versailles military. Manufacturers was created in 1950 by fernand leger in naive art primitivism style. February 4, 1881 august 17, 1955 was a french painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at best visual art database. A dynamic, inventive, and influential modern artist, fernand legers works spans painting, printmaking, and film. Le 4 fevrier 1969, andre malraux, ministre detat charge des affaires culturelles, inaugure le nouveau musee national fernandleger dont les donateurs demeurent les directeurs. It looks like we dont have any plot summaries for this title yet. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the plot summary submission guide. Renseignement, galerie fernand leger, service arts plastiques. Les fumeurs the smokers, 191112, oil on canvas, 129. He also taught at yale university and at mills college in california from 1940 until 1945. Son art est base sur le contraste equilibre des couleurs et des formes, quil a developpe a une echelle monumentale. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name. Leger was born into a peasant family in a small town in normandy.
In seinen werken nach dem zweiten weltkrieg veranderte sich sein malerischer stil. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. His modernist figures and cityscapes are among the most iconic works produced in the early 20th century. 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. Finally, leger wrote in 1945 that the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. His environment was the urban landscape of cars and machinery. His painting broke with artistic conventions and sought to transcribe the fragmentation and syncopated rhythm of a fastmoving society. Galerie fernand leger, ivrysurseine, galerie dart infos. Fernand leger estampes originales, lithographies et gravures. Bozar is devoting an exhibition about one of the bestknown modern artists, and a passionate observer of a bustling century. Jun 11, 2017 this feature is not available right now. Get the best deal for art prints fernand leger from the largest online selection at. Look up fernand in wiktionary, the free dictionary. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.