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.
At the beginning of Léger's career he had been painting in a style that mixed Impressionism with Fauvism.
Léger began his career as a an artist by serving an apprenticeship in architecture in Caen and working as a architectural draughtsman. In 1900 Léger went to Paris and was admitted to the Ãcole des Arts Décoratifs in 1903 and also attended the Académie Julian. The first profound influence on Léger's work came from Cézanne, whose pictures Léger encountered at the large-scale Paul Cézanne exhibition at the 1907 Salon d'Automne. [1]
He was friend of great artists like Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Theodore Rousseau, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Léger's students included Sam Francis, William Gear, and Tarsila do Amaral.
The Woman in Blue, 1912.
Still Life with a Beer Mug, 1921.
