Word: primitivistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 in the U.S. for 4½ years during World War II, he painted The Builders, which won this year's $4,000 Sao Paulo international prize; he also designed sketches...