| − | '''Fernand Léger''' (Argentan, France, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) French [[painter]], sculptor, and filmmaker. One of the prominent Cubists as well as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Georges Braque]], and [[Juan Gris]]. Fernand Léger emphasized a personal form of "Cubism" called "Tubism" for its cylindrical forms; he did not used the collage technique displayed in Braque and Picasso's works or in [[Diego Rivera]]'s synthetic [[cubism]]. Deeply influenced by modern industrial technology and Cubism. He developed “machine art,” a style characterized by monumental mechanistic forms rendered in bold colours. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/334999/Fernand-Leger] | + | '''Fernand Léger''' (Argentan, France, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) French [[painter]], sculptor, and filmmaker. One of the prominent Cubists as well as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Georges Braque]], and [[Juan Gris]]. Fernand Léger emphasized a personal form of "Cubism" called "Tubism" for its cylindrical forms; he did not used the collage technique displayed in Braque and Picasso's works or in [[Diego Rivera]]'s synthetic [[cubism]]. Deeply influenced by modern industrial technology and Cubism he developed “machine art,” a style characterized by monumental mechanistic forms rendered in bold colours. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/334999/Fernand-Leger] |