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Fernand Leger
Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Fernand Leger wrote in 1945 that "the object in modern painting must become the
main character and overthrow the subject. If, in turn, the human form becomes
an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist."
As he explained in a 1949 essay, by allowing the object to replace the subject,
"we were able to consider the human figure as a plastic value, not as a sentimental
value. That is why the human figure has remained willfully inexpressive throughout
the evolution of my work". As the first painter to take as his idiom the imagery
of the machine age, and to make the objects of consumer society the subjects of
his paintings, he has been called a progenitor of Pop Art.
He was active as a teacher for many years. Among his pupils were Robert Colescott,
Hananiah Harari, Asger Jorn, Beverly Pepper, George L. K. Morris, and Charlotte Gilbertson.
In 1952, a pair of Fernand Leger murals was installed in the General Assembly Hall of
the United Nations headquarters in New York, New York.
In November of 2003, his painting, La femme en rouge et vert sold for 22,407,500
United States dollars. His sculptures have been selling in excess of 8 million dollars.
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