Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
About Fernand Leger
Joseph Fernand Henri Legerwas a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubismwhich he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style.
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Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.
French painter (1881-1956)
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing.
French painter (1881-1956)
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
French painter (1881-1956)
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
French painter (1881-1956)
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
French painter (1881-1956)