Word: leger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curves as a tank of porpoises. Reason: a big show of the ballooning sculptures of 66-year-old French Sculptor Henri Laurens. Laurens, a sculptor in a generation noted mainly for its painters, is little known outside his own set, which includes School-of-Paris Veterans Picasso, Braque and Leger. But his big bulging nudes last week earned him plaudits from critics as the greatest of living French sculptors...
Britain's King one day last week visited the Royal Academy's show of modern French art, accompanied by France's Ambassador, Rene Massigli. When the royal party reached a huge abstract painting by Fernand Leger called La Noce (The Wedding), King George stopped. For a moment the King gazed at the strange melee of human figures squeezed into cubist shapes, then turned to the Ambassador. "What is it?" he asked. "The Schuman Plan...
...hemming & haw-hawing, the Royal Academy at last admitted that modern, school-of-Paris art might be art. To let Britons judge the stuff for themselves, the academy last week opened a show of France's top moderns. Among those best represented were Utrillo, Rouault, Braque, Chagall, Leger and Matisse*-all of them old men now. Critics and the earnest students who jammed the exhibition rapturously agreed that it was great. But the old guard closed ranks, fixed bayonets, and refused to surrender...
...Montreal's tactful, liberal-minded Archbishop Paul-Emile Leger, 46, onetime head of the Canadian Pontifical College in Rome, who was raised to the archbishopric only last year...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...