French painter (1881–1955)
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He bent cubism into cylinders and called it "tubism," then pushed past that into bold, flattened shapes that made factory gears and workers look like the same kind of object — a treatment so direct it anticipated pop art by decades.
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: crit…
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..the personification of the close-up detail, the individualisation of the fragment, where the drama takes shape, moves and have it being. Film concurs with this aspect for life.
[a new order] ..independent of the values of the feelings, and the description and imitation of nature..
The relationship of volumes, lines, and colors demands absolute orchestration and order.
Instead of opposing comic and tragic characters [as Molière and Shakespeare] and contrary scenic states, I organize the opposition of contrasting values, lines, and curves.
I myself have employed the close-up, which is the cinema's only real invention. The fragment of the object has also been of use to me; by isolating it you personalize it.
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