Fernand Léger in his artist quotes on painting, Purism & life - free resource, French art history

Fernand Léger in quotes - the artist on his painting art, Purism & his life in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Fernand Léger’s artist quotes describe his view on French Cubism and his later artistic shift towards a clear and representational art style in the art-movement he initiated himself with other French artists: ‘Purism’.

Leger started as a painter-artist in Cubism in France with Picasso, Braque en Juan Gris. However soon developed his painting art in another direction, partly because of his focus on the working class people in the modern French society… …modern techniques, constructions and traffic in the big cities in France became his leading motives for his painting art.
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Some selected quotes of French artist Fernand Léger - as short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The view through the door of the railroad car… …in combination with the speed, has altered the habitual look of things. A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist.’ - quote of Léger, from his text: ‘Functions of Painting’, 1914

• ’The relationship of volumes, lines, and colors demands absolute orchestration and order. These values are all unquestionable influential; they have extended into modern objects such as airplanes, automobiles, farm machines, etc. Today we are in competition with the ‘beautiful object’; it is undeniable.’ - Léger’s quote from his text: ‘Notes on Contemporary Plastic Life’, in ‘Kunstblatt’, Berlin 1923

• ’These new means (in movies, 1920’s) have given us a new mentality. We want to see clearly… …functions, motors, down to their subtlest details… …we want to feel and grasp the details of those wholes… – and we realise that these details… (have) …life of their own. Close-ups in the cinema are a consecration of this new vision.’ - quote from Léger’s text ‘Actualités’, in ‘Varietés nr. 1’, France, 1928
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  selection of free art-resources on French artist Fernand Léger:

  • biographical notes on Fernand Léger, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Léger
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Léger, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fernand_Lége
  • images of the painting art of Fernand Léger, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Fernand Leger
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]