Word: legere
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...began to paint in the primitive spirit," he wrote later. The bulky twisting serfs in Floor Polishers, 1911-12, are the laboring cousins of the ecstatic figures in Matisse's La Danse, 1909, and the red-hot metallic forms of The Woodcutter, 1912, are a Tolstoyan version of Leger's "tubism." Aviator, 1914, plays with the standard emblems of Cubism -- printed words, a hat, an ace of clubs. But it has to be the only Cubist painting with a sturgeon...
PICASSO, BRAQUE, GRIS, LEGER: DOUGLAS COOPER COLLECTING CUBISM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More than 80 representative works acquired by a friend of the artists, ranging from Picasso's Three Figures Under a Tree (1907-08) to Fernand Leger's 1936 painting Composition. Jan. 31 to April...
...romantic lines of my youth," sighs a middle-aged Moscow housewife. "We would line up at Sokolniki Park to see the first American exhibition, where Khrushchev debated Nixon. Or at the Pushkin Museum to see paintings by Fernand Leger. What wonderful times we had! Not like in these horrible lines today...
...show's subtitle, "Picasso, Leger, De Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930," only hints at the size of the field it covers. Its broad subject is the classical revival that spread through South European art -- mainly French, Italian and Spanish -- in the wake of World War I and formed a kind of counterweight to the fragmentation of cubism and feverish alienation of dada, expressionism and surrealism...
...student in St. Petersburg up to 1910, he came under the wing of Diaghilev's designer Leon Bakst; an enlightened Jewish patron, Max Vinaver, sent him to Paris that year. He took a studio in a rickety building near the slaughteryards and found that his neighbors were Soutine, Leger and Modigliani. Back in Russia by 1914, Chagall waited out World War I (and was plunged into the Revolution) in the company of Tatlin, Malevich and Kandinsky...