Continuing the Art of Play
September 21, 2022
Artist: Fernand Léger
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Fernand Léger was a French artist who worked in many mediums, including film and graphics. What he is best known for, though, are his large scale paintings and murals. Often painted in block colours with bold graphic lines, they are evidence of his belief that 'color is… as indispensable to life as water or fire'.
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Fernand Léger remains a complex enigma. Best known for the modernity of his works and ideas, he celebrated machinery, urban life and progress. However, while his contemporaries were using more innovative techniques like papier mâché, collage, found object or photography, Léger clung to oil painting.
Warm-up:
Leger went through many different styles in his career as a painter.
Please take your inspiration from one of these periods/paintings. I personally am attracted to his portraits and style coined "tubism", and his black line paintings on the colorful background of rectangular shapes.
Please use the warm-up period to experiment with a style or two.
Project:
You will continue with your chosen style to complete a finished painting.
The Village, 1914
The Staircase, 1914
The City, 1919
Mechanical Elements, 1920
Three Women. 1921-22
Woman with a Book, 1923
Divers, Blue and Black. 1942–43
Les Plongeurs (The Divers), 1943
Builders with Rope, 1950
Manufacturers with Aloe, 1951
Woman and Child, 1952
Young Girl Holding a Flower, 1954
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