What Is Fernand Léger's Comparison Of Forms

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 in which he would portray in his artwork. In his early years, Léger was denied entrance to the École des Beaux-Arts (school of Arts), but attended classes there beginning in 1903. Also, he studied at the Académie Julian, a school that used artworks
Many of those paintings are proudly displayed at museums around the world and show the absolute significance of the artist and his true self. There are several well-known paintings from this artist, but one significant painting is Léger’s “Contraste de Formes” (Contrast of Forms), that was painted in 1914. This abstract piece of artwork displays a variety use of lines, colors, and shapes to portray an intense display. The painting measuring approximately 65.2 x 80.7cm was created by Léger in France during the years in which he outlined his artistic philosophy. At the time of this creation he often argued for the independence of painting from its traditional role of representation. Léger insisted that instead, it should acquire the greatest possible controversy and portray a large amount of intensity by contrasting all of the shapes and colors together, showing his liking of geometric shapes. By contrasting the shapes and colors together, Léger created an effect making the painting equal to what was seen as modern life. Similarly, another well-known painting of Fernand Léger is “La Noce” (Trouville), that he began to paint in 1910 and successfully finished in 1911. This intense piece of artwork shows a variety of shapes creating an image supported with hints of blues, greens, oranges and yellows to bring it all together. This Cubism styled painting, also known as “The Wedding” depicts two married people standing in the center of the portrait where the bride whose eyes are closed is wearing a black veil and demonstrates the length of her white wedding dress. Her husband, a man painted green, placing his hand on the shoulder of the bride is depicted as showing support towards her. The color green, used to portray the husband, is also reflected across various locations in the painting such as the table across the painted landscape. The background of this painting shows the use of