I dispersed my objects in space and got them to hold together by making them radiate forwards, out of the picture. It's all an easy interplay of chor… - Fernand Léger

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I dispersed my objects in space and got them to hold together by making them radiate forwards, out of the picture. It's all an easy interplay of chords and rhythms made up of foreground and background colours, of conducting lines, of distances and of contrasts.

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About Fernand Léger

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. He started his art in early cubism and developed a style in which the human figure in relation to the modern times was his central aim to represent. He and his art was engaged with communism and with the worker's life.

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Pen Names: Lezhe, Fernan
Alternative Names: Fernand Leger Fernan Lezeh Fernan Lez'eh Fernan Lezhe Ferunan Reje F. Leger Leger fernand leger Fernad Léger Léger

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At the same time we would most like to run the film back and see how the sanctuaries close again and the lights go out and the great powers of nature are once again met with deserved reverence. One can fell an oak in twenty seconds; but in order to become what it now is, it grew for a century.. ..Progress is but a word without sense, and the cow, which keeps the world alive, will not move faster than three kilometers per hour in the future, either.

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