'''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]]. | '''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]]. |