Les Constructeurs au vélo
1950
Tall steel frameworks and men working on them. The thick, free lines of ink give the entire canvas a robust sense of immediacy.
The painter Fernand Léger is often said to have celebrated the 'beauty of machines', and that the humans depicted in his works were inorganic, robot-like beings. However, in this series painted in 1950, what he aimed for was quite the opposite.
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Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his…
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