Composition
Creation period
1918
Dimensions
146x114 cm
146х114
146х114
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
Exhibition
1
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Fernand Leger
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French painter Fernand Leger started his creative journey with an interest in impressionism, was later influenced by Cezanne, and was close to Cubism. In the late 1910s, he founded the movement of “dynamical mechanism, " which is represented by the painting “Composition”.
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Fernand Leger
1881, Argentan, Orne, France — 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France
1881, Argentan, Orne, France — 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France
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“Composition”
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His combination of mechanical and geometric parts, where the material objectivity of forms is dissolved in the dynamics of rhythms and lines, is an apotheosis of the machine civilization. It embodies the “mechanical” aesthetics, expressing the spirit of the new constructivist architecture (which Leger was close to during this period).
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Composition
Creation period
1918
Dimensions
146x114 cm
146х114
146х114
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
Exhibition
1
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