# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:30.488Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Fernand Léger was born February 4, 1881, in France, and trained as a painter at a moment when cubism was fracturing Paris. He carved out his own version of it early on, building forms from tubes and cylinders in a style that got labeled "tubism." Over time he pulled away from pure abstraction, simplifying figures and objects into something more populist and accessible, painting modern life — machines, laborers, urban scenes — with the same boldly geometric treatment. That flattening of high and low, that unapologetic directness with contemporary subject matter, put him ahead of the curve: critics later saw him as a forerunner of pop art. He also worked in sculpture and film before his death on August 17, 1955.