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BIOGRAPHY
Born: February 4, 1881Died: August 17, 1955Age: 74Hometown: France
BACKGROUND Started: Architect's draftsman
Photo retoucher
Failed to get into his first art school:
( Ecole des Beaux- Arts)
Got into a different School:
( Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and Academic Julian)
FERNAND FAMOUS FOR…
- French Painter - Leading Cubists- Non Objective Abstraction
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CUBIST
Definition: - Developed in the 20th
Century- Geometric - Abstract
Forms: Sculpture, painting
Worth 4.7 Million Dollars
The Bargeman1918
The City1919
La Grande Parade1954
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MACHINES
Obsession in his work
- Cannon
- Air Plain
- Tank
(Fragments)
Soldiers Play at Cards1917
The Builders1950
SIMPLISTIC TIME
- Went to war ( WWI) - Discovered Simple objects - “Everyday poetic Images” - Simple and Bold Colors
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AMERICA
Escaped Hitler WWIIInspired By Industrial Revolution Taught at YaleMills College
OTHER ARTISTS WORKED WITH
Pablo Picasso Georges Braque
QUOTES
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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.
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CITED
http://www.rolandcollection.com/films/?prm=a12-b97-c554-d0-e0
http://www.artbrokerage.com/artist/Fernand-Leger
http://www.rue89.com/zoomorama/2009/07/09/aux-arts-deco-toulouse-lautrec-cote-affiches
