his paintings as they some what have a visual impact of an advertisement. Magritte started out as an impressionist early on in his career before arriving at his trademark surrealist style after several years of study. His early influences were Fernand Leger and his earliest works were based on cubism and futurism. He produced his first surrealist painting in 1926‚ The Lost Jockey. Magritte’s paintings seem to encourage people to consider the reality that is around them and look at things and not accept
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The artwork that I chose for the museum art assignment was Footed Goblet‚ 1924‚ painted by Fernand Leger. Footed Goblet is at first glance a precisely-ordered grid of rectangles and curved shapes that lie flat against the picture plane. The painting was done on a medium of oil on canvas. Looking closely‚ objects described in terms of basic geometric forms become visible: upon a table rests an electric light‚ a book‚ a domino‚ and an adjustable lamp. On the shelf sits a footed glass. The painting
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Fernand Léger was a well-known French painter‚ sculptor‚ and filmmaker whose artwork originated in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Born in Argentan‚ France in 1881‚ Fernand Léger built his artist reputation‚ in which his style varied from decade to decade‚ changing between working with abstract art and the use of figuration in which he showed several different influences. Fernand Léger always acquired an interest in art and therefore used the experiences he lived through in his life as ideas
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movie The Count of Monte Cristo‚ Edmond seeks revenge on Fernand Mondego for many reasons. All of which were justified because of the horrible treatment Edmond received while he was in prison. Not only did that make Edmond angry‚ but also when he found out the Fernand Mondego had married his wife to be only 1 month after being locked away. Being that they were friends once before made it that much harder for Edmond to believe everything that Fernand had done to him behind his back. There were lots of
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remarkable change in their styles of art. Two very pronounced artists‚ Fernand Leger and Max Beckman‚ served in the war and impacted their art profusely. World War I was an era of industrialization in culture and in the economy‚ and as the world changed‚ so did European Art. Leger fascination with the past and his vital experience in the war had a profound impact on his work. While the war was undergoing trench warfare‚ Leger was one who almost lost his life‚ due to a mustard gas attack‚ which changed
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Color with No Bounds In the Master Piece “Man With Cane” by Fernand Leger‚ the color flourishes the painting in rigid shapes to create an abstract figure. Different tones varying around the art work give the colors a more mature and distinguished look. The lightly added grey hue helped the yellow stand as a rich and dull setting for the tints to offer a brighter saturation in the colors. The hue constancy in the blue is throughout the Master piece. This gives the viewer a sense of balance in the
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experimented with new formulas and techniques. "By 1930‚" sculptor historian Wayne Craven has written‚ Calder’s "Circus had become one of the real successes of the art world of Montparnasse‚ as well as among the Paris intellectuals. Jean Cocteau‚ Fernand Leger‚ Joan Miro‚ Piet Mondrian‚ Jean Arp... and others were captivated by it‚ whereas none of them paid much attention to Calder’s wood carvings. Such encouragement undoubtedly led him to try more serious experiments in wire sculptures." During this
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The Art Deco Crossover: A Merging of the Avant-Garde and Decorative Arts‚ 1910-1939 The twentieth century ushered in an eclectic‚ luxurious and modern style of design and decoration the world would define at the Paris 1925 exhibition as Art Deco. The material world was now an amalgamation of new technologies and processes and drew from many worldwide influences. However‚ the greatest influence of the movement was the new visual language‚ color and iconography of the avant-garde art world: Cubism
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Read the article “When Cubism met the decorative arts in France” by Paul Trauchtman (abridged). Pick out thematic vocabulary; use new words and word combinations in sentences of your own (10-15 – in writing); write 15 questions to the text; make a brief summary of the text. "When we invented Cubism‚ we had no intention whatsoever of inventing Cubism‚" said Pablo Picasso‚ many years later. "We wanted simply to express what was in us." What was in Picasso and his contemporaries was a voracious‚ if
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Baumeister‚ German Cueto‚ Pierre Daura‚ Wassily Kandisky‚ Fernand Léger‚ Piet Mondrian‚ Amadée Ozenfant‚ Antoine Pevsner‚ Enrico Prampolini‚ Alberto Sartoris‚ Kurt Schwitters‚ Sophie Taeuber-Arp Joaquín Torres García‚ and Georges Vanrongerloo. Two lectures by Seuphor and Torres-García‚ as well as an audition by the futurist musician Luigi Russolo‚ accompanied the opening and closing of this
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