Word: fernand
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...summer day in Sotomayor's native Bronx. "The symbolism can't be overstated," says former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, one of the country's largest African-American organizations. "There is a much greater sense of solidarity now between the two groups." Says Fernand Amandi, executive vice president of the Bendixen & Associates public-opinion-research firm in Miami: "Ethnic tensions won't be ended by one Supreme Court nomination, but the picture of an African-American President standing with a Latina Supreme Court nominee shows the groups coming together at the highest positions...
...young painters, "Beware of the influential master." Could there have been a more influential master than he? "The master of us all" is what Henri Matisse once called him, by which he surely meant himself, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian and any of the other pioneers of modernism. Fernand Léger once told an interviewer about his "battle to quit Cézanne," as though he were a narcotic. "Then one bright day," Léger insisted, "I said, 'Zut!'" (See pictures of Cezanne...
...last people to get a peek inside the three-story apartment on Rue de Babylone where Saint Laurent lived from 1972 until his death. Stepping into the Grand Salon, visitors are met with a mind-bogglingly eclectic display of art that somehow achieves a visual harmony. An imposing Fernand Léger dominates the far wall with a Matisse nude tucked away nearby; on the other side of the broad rectangular room, where Renaissance objects of bronze and silver intermingle with sumptuous art-deco furniture, an elaborate cubist Picasso masterpiece - Instruments de musique sur un guéridon, 1914 - hangs...
After the cubism revolution of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque violently overturned accepted artistic conventions, the door was open for artists like Fernand Léger to rearticulate the relationship between form and representation. “Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms,†on display at the Fogg Art Museum from April 14 through June 10, offers a rare look at the stylistic evolution of this seminal artist as he moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work...
...DIED. Fernand Braudel, 83, eminent French historian and leading practitioner of the Annales school, or "new history," an approach that focuses on climate and geography, sociocultural processes and accounts of everyday life and thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal...