Fernand Léger

Alexander Calder was one of the most innovative and original American artists of the twentieth century. In 1926, Calder arrived in Paris and devoted himself to a project called the Circus that occupied him for over five years. This contains characters and animals made out of wire, scraps of cloth, wood, cork, labels, bits of scrap metal and pieces of rubber. Calder transported his little theater in suitcases and performed it for his friends. During his performances, Calder invented ways to simulate

Evgenievish Ekstar and moved to Paris for several months and studied at Academeie de la Grande-chaumiere in Paris, I was expelled for not following their artistic ideas. I would later on meet Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Fernand Léger in Paris and would become inspired by cubism. (“The reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.”) The Cubism movement would

Fernand léger was French painter who was profoundly impacted by cutting edge modern engineering and Cubism. He created "machine craftsmanship," a style described by fantastic robotic structures rendered in strong shades. Despite the fact that he manufactured his notoriety for being a Cubist, his style shifted extensively from decade to decade, fluctuating in the middle of figuration and deliberation and indicating impact from an extensive variety of sources. Léger worked in an assortment of media

to Magritte. This caused him to lose interest in art for a while until a fellow student introduced him to the new and upcoming styles of Futurism, Cubism, and Purism. Art critics say his early works were influenced by Cubists Jean Metzinger and Fernand Leger. Magritte would only identify as a surrealist when he saw the work of Giorgio de Chirico. As Magritte developed his own style and came into his own as an artist, he became more well known. In fact, many of his more well known pieces, including

Following the First World War, much of society rejected the ideas of machinery and war, as were often suggested in futuristic, avant-garde art up until then. Artists such as Leger worked with this situation by embracing classicism and realistic, figurative works. This approach worked, and their art was successful amongst society. “Léger and his colleagues rejoiced in the new publicity of the postwar years and the energy of mass media” (O’Donovan, 2013). Hurd took this European art movement and used it

Introduction The visual art of the twentieth century, known as modernism, was often thought of as being in a state of uncertainty or crisis. According to Robert Hughes, the key word for this new century was “modernity” meaning to believe in technology and not craft , as machines with their “fast, metallic, elastic [and] warm” appearances were new and fascinating to people at this time. The causes of the major turning point within the visual arts at this time was due to changes such as the invention

Jeffrey Smart was an artist with exemplary vision and intense productivity throughout his career. Smart was a master of painting urban landscapes and industrial wastelands with “precise attention to clean lines, composition and geometry” (Pearce, 2012). The development of his visual bloodstream can be attributed to significant architectural and cultural influences in his hometown Adelaide, Australia, as well as Sydney, Rome and Tuscany. SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS Born in 1921, young

“If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it”(Alexander Calder). Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1898. Calder’s family was filled with sculptors. Alexander’s grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, was a sculptor born in Scotland and in 1868, he moved to Philadelphia. He worked on many historical carvings of Philadelphia City

Surrealism was an art movement based on dreams, unconscious thought and defying conventional logic. It grew out of the earlier avant-garde movement called Dada in the 1920s. Dada was about chaos and rejecting logic and rationality, and was also referred to as anti-art. Just like Surrealism it often featured bizarre imagery that didn 't make sense. Famous surrealist artists include Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Frida Kahlo (although she rejected the label)

When you look at it from a distance, it seems like a jumbled mess of colours but each “mess” has a different meaning.  An example of this is “The City” by Fernand Léger.  The artist is trying to show Paris as a claustrophobic city and that is why he made it look very fragmented.  He presented a collage of signs, monuments, and robotic figures to show how he felt in The City.  I will be adding my own abstract piece