Fernand Leger
Fernand Leger
Joseph Fernand Henri Légerwas a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth4 February 1881
CountryFrance
colour element fire man necessary needs
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
independent realistic term
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
understanding assuming painting
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
art progress hierarchy
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
fire water needs
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
way realism whole
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.
beautiful art moving
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.
men color fire
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
giving personality enlargement
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.
men order creation
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
art understanding matter
Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
beautiful wall museums
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.
color curves lines
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.
fire water joy
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.