Word: leger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fernand Léger, 74, French "machine-age primitive" painter; of a heart attack; in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Regarded as one of the masters of School-of-Paris art, Leger (rhymes with beige-hay), the son of a Norman farmer, went to Paris in 1898 to study painting, earned his living as a photo retoucher. In 1910 he experimented with and abandoned the cubist techniques of Braque and Picasso, was later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living...
...each artist, rather than the ten or more works which a jury expects to see before granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter Graham Sutherland to hand the next prize of $1,300 to Italian Abstractionist Alberto Magnelli...
...gives to the execution of his work and the mathematical balance applied to composition. Furthermore, the materials he uses, wire and sheet steel, are products of a technologically advanced culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have...
...Doncaster, England, Kentucky-bred Never Say Die romped to a twelve-length victory in the 178th renewal of the St. Leger Stakes and ran off with $37,721 for his American owner, 78-year-old Financier Robert Sterling Clark. Blinking happily through tears, Clark hugged his three-year-old chestnut colt, first American-bred and American-owned horse since 1881 to win both the Epsom Derby (TIME, June 14) and the St. Leger...
...stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...