Reading with Fernand

Inspired by Fernand Ledger

14" x 14" Oil Painting on Canvas

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Oh Boy, this took sooo long to do. Everything was fine

lines. I am glad I don't do this all the time. lol!

Even though it took so long to paint I really did enjoy

using all the brilliant reds and colors with the black and

white. They are just so striking together with all the

patterns and stripes. Love the way it turned out.

I wasn't crazy about the original expressions that Ledger

used in his paintings. They all looked so sad and some

had no faces. So I changed all of the faces and many of

the elements for my composition. This is a combination

of elements from four of his paintings with people reading.

Enjoy, "Reading with Fernand"

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and film maker . In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of Pop Art.
Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Basse- Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897–1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman.

Léger 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, Léger has been called a progenitor of Pop Art.

Fernand Ledger

http://www.fernand-leger.com/

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/leger/