Fernand Leger the famous French, Cubist, constructivist painter with quotations and images

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Fernand Léger

1881-1955

French Cubist /Constructivist Painter

Artistically and stylistically influenced the following painters; Cézanne, Soutine, and Braque

Education - Ecole des Arts Decoratifs

Fernand Leger Quotations

"I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray." -- Fernand Leger

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." -- Fernand Leger

"The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content." -- Fernand Leger

"Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts." -- Fernand Leger

"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting." -- Fernand Leger

"I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray." -- Fernand Leger

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