Word: leger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries are 29 sculptures with a vastly different intent. Paris Sculptor Etienne Hajdu, 50, born in Rumania of Hungarian parents, first approached his work under the inspiration of Abstractionists Fernand Leger and Brancusi. A wartime stint as a laborer in a Pyrenees marble quarry and an abrupt shift back to the position that "man is wonderful" gave him a new material and new goal...
...find his inspiration, the senior partner of Harrison & Abramovitz in 1954 toured the great cathedrals of England, France and Germany. Through his friend, Painter Fernand Leger, he met Chartres' famed stained-glass artist, Gabriel Loire, who molded the glass according to Harrison's design. The ruby, amber, amethyst, emerald and sapphire glass sections, roughly chipped to flash like jewels, are laid out to form abstract designs representing the Crucifixion and Resurrection...
...represented at his most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape as in a crucifixion. It is good to see less exhibited figures such as Villon and Masson included, though Miro, Leger, Mondrian and the sculptor Lipschitz receive perhaps less than their...
...fact that it continues to stand. For the past few weeks, Robinson Hall, in the School of Design, has featured an exhibit of Le Corbusier's painting. Their reaction--Le Corbusier is a better architect than painter. His painting is largely derivative, owing debts to Piccaso, Braque and Leger. Architect Le Corbusier on occasion shows he has a fine command of line as well as color, but his composition is not well integrated. There is, nevertheless, a sense of discipline that never allows the picture to fail completely. Le Corbusier's canvases are two-dimensional. Along with Ozenfant...
Abroad, the parade back to lithography was started by Picasso himself, who in 1945 became fascinated with the out-of-mode art form, was soon joined by a host of modern masters-Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro et al. In the U.S. lithography, which was revived as an art form under the WPA, also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc...