Word: gerring
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...seedy, 57-year-old fascist had little new to offer his disciples. His old British Union of Fascism was masked under a new name, the European Union Movement. It had some new heroes: West Ger many's disenfranchised neo-Nazi Werner Naumann and U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy ("the only leader in America today showing strength, character and direction"), but the 800 screaming followers who gathered in the school auditorium to greet Mosley might have been waiting there ever since the late 1930s. There were the same blond bully boys, the same zoot-suited spivs, the same middle-aged women...
...made in the section called Hommage aux Ainés (homage to the elders), in which were displayed the works of now-famous artists who have shown at the Salon through the years. Among les Ainés: Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo. Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Chagall and Lėger...
...ger's avowed purpose has always been to make pictures that are bold and cold enough to rival a locomotive or a neon sign for attention. In painting human figures, he habitually reduces them to automatons, explaining that they are no more important to the artist's eye than other, neater objects, such as, for example, drainpipes. Neither the rich shadows of Renaissance painting nor the dazzling highlights of Impressionism intrigue Léger; he sticks to bright, flat, posterlike hues. He never sings the glory of dappled things, nor does he praise anything soft, warm, delicate...
...ger's strength lies in his limitations. Raised on a Norman farm, he has never quite got over the awe and delight with which the country boy sees the big city for the first time, although Paris is now home to him. Léger's bias for machine-tooled design does not come from study, experiment or theory; it was set during the only period in his adult life when he did no painting, while he was a stretcher-bearer in an engineer corps during World War I. "There," he recalls, "in the midst of machines...
...Fernand Léger...