"I have always been driven by creativity. Painting has helped me understand the relationships between humans and their environment. It is an exhilarating and dangerous environment."
Born in 1887 and died in 1965, Le Corbusier was a Swiss architect, urban planner, decorator, painter, and sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Purist movement and actively contributed to its theorization and dissemination through the journal L'Esprit Nouveau. In his works, rigor, simplicity of forms, and organization are the key elements of his art, which at the time took the form of paintings and drawings. This period, around the 1920s, played a major role in shaping the future architect he would later become.
For him, art must awaken the mind, but without embellishment—only sobriety matters. His style would later evolve into something more poetic and surrealist, bringing him closer to Fernand Léger. In the early stages of his career, Le Corbusier produced works of almost disconcerting sobriety, in which the human figure was not permitted.
