Tag: Fernand Léger

  • Fernand Léger – New Times, New Pleasures

    Léger is regarded as the father of pop art and, despite his harrowing experiences during the first world war, the works here reflect a sense of optimism

  • Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil

    As revealed by this tightly curated exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tarsila do Amaral, the latest artist to ride the current wave of Brazilian modernism, turns out to have invented it

  • Cubism: The Leonard A Lauder Collection

    This superbly sensitive installation of the four greats of Cubism – Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris – conveys the courage bordering on insanity that ended a centuries-old pictorial tradition

  • Landscape architecture: Bernard Lassus

    E6 European Autoroute: Re-Articulating Ancient Ways Trelleborg, Sweden (2013)

  • The Modern City

    Fernand Léger’s masterpiece The City (1919), in which the French painter represents, with vibrant colours, the chaos and movement of the urban environment, is the starting point of Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. As a man who saw with…

  • Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis

    Philadelphia Museum of Art 14 October 2013 – 5 January 2014