{"id":1342,"date":"2013-11-27T02:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2013-11-27T03:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T03:31:28","slug":"fernand-leger-cubism-evolving-shifting-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Fernand L\u00e9ger – (Cubism Evolving, Shifting Integration and Using the Picture Plane)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fernand L\u00e9ger - Still Life with a Beer Mug - 1921-22 - 91 x 60 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

Cubism has intrigued many artists and L<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ger is showing a refined approach to this great consideration.\u00a0 In this painting he uses cubist shifting, which is showing two or more views of an object simultaneously.\u00a0 We see this at the top edge of the table and at the top of the mug.\u00a0 L<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ger broadened the shifting consideration to include integrations, most notably <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>the integration of the vertical in the mug’s opening with the vertical black line above, providing a key connection in the composition.\u00a0 He has also done this on the mug’s handle and with sensitive restraint where the white line joins the white of the bowl containing the fruit. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

L<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ger’s traditional modelling of thecurtain and the items on the table is perfectly restrained and beautifully balanced with the flattening of the background and floor.\u00a0 I like how we feel the roundness of the mug even though the shapes on the front are flat.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>How he combined cubism with it’s <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>sense of space with the raising of the background and mug to the picture plane is wonderful.\u00a0 Can you feel the yellow and red shapes trying to come forward to the level of the mug and table top?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll finish with a wonderful example of integration.\u00a0 Run your eye up the table leg below the fruit bowl.\u00a0 Do you feel the sense of the leg on the table top?\u00a0 That is why he painted the two shadowy shapes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

L<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/span>ger enhanced and refined two great movements in twentieth century painting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cubism has intrigued many artists and L\u00e9ger is showing a refined approach to this great consideration.\u00a0 In this painting he uses cubist shifting, which is showing two or more views of an object simultaneously.\u00a0 We see this at the top … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10,30,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}