"Every artist possesses an offensive weapon that allows them to challenge tradition. Seeking brilliance and intensity, I have used the machine, just as others use the nude body or still life."
Fernand Léger was a French artist born in 1881 and died in 1955. He was a decorator, ceramist, sculptor, draftsman, and painter.
He was the first artist to exhibit Cubist works, a style he began exploring in the 1910s, and he moved closer to the Purist movement by 1926. That same year, he contributed to the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and co-founded the Academy of Modern Art with Amédée Ozenfant.
His art is marked by a balance between lines, shapes, and colors, creating canvases where the harmony of a new era prevails.
Between industrial forms, compositional rigor, and color, Fernand Léger brings together all the elements that characterize his time, adding one fundamental aspect: the human figure. Thus, what stands out most in his work is the humanity of art.
