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Fernand Léger

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Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. [1]

136 relations: Abstract art, Académie Julian, Albert Gleizes, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Aleksandra Ekster, Alexander Archipenko, Alma del Banco, Amédée Ozenfant, Argentan, Arie Aroch, Art Institute of Chicago, Asger Jorn, Aurélie Nemours, École des Beaux-Arts, Ballet Mécanique, Bern, Beverly Pepper, Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, Caracas, Central University of Venezuela, Charlotte Gilbertson, Charlotte Wankel, Christian Berg, Close-up, Collage, Communist party, Cubism, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Der Sturm, Du "Cubisme", Dudley Murphy, Erik Olson, Essonne, Figurative art, Film, Film director, Filmmaking, Florence Henri, Forest of Argonne, Francis Picabia, French Army, Futurism, George Antheil, George L.K. Morris, Georges Braque, Gerhard Neumann, German Empire, Gif-sur-Yvette, Hananiah Harari, Hans Hartung, ..., Headquarters of the United Nations, Henri Le Fauconnier, Henri Rousseau, Impressionism, Jacques Lipchitz, Jacques Villon, Jean Metzinger, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Joseph Csaky, Jules Olitski, Kunstmuseum Basel, L'Inhumaine, Lars Englund, Le Corbusier, Lou Albert-Lasard, Louise Bourgeois, Lower Normandy, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Mouly, Marcelle Cahn, Marie Laurencin, Marie Vassilieff, Marlow Moss, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Loew, Mills College Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Modernism, Montparnasse, Museum of Modern Art, Nadia Khodasevich Léger, Nadir Afonso, National Gallery of Victoria, Nelson Rockefeller, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Nicolas Poussin, Orne, Otto Gustaf Carlsund, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Paul Cézanne, Paul Georges, Peter Agostini, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pinchas Burstein, Pop art, Populism, Primary color, Printmaking, Purism, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, René Margotton, Return to order, Richard Stankiewicz, Robert Colescott, Robert Delaunay, Salon d'Automne, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Sam Francis, São Paulo, Sculpture, Section d'Or, Serge Gainsbourg, Société des Artistes Indépendants, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Sorbonne, Sulfur mustard, Tarsila do Amaral, The City (Léger), Tsuguharu Foujita, Tubism, United Nations General Assembly, United States dollar, Venezuela, Verdun, Versailles, Yvelines, Victor Reinganum, Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Wellesley College, William Klein (photographer), Yale School of Art, Yale University, Yvelines. Expand index (86 more) »

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Académie Julian

The Académie Julian was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968.

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Albert Gleizes

Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.

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Albright–Knox Art Gallery

The Albright–Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park.

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Aleksandra Ekster

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (Александра Александровна Экстер, Олександра Олександрівна Екстер; 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist) and designer of international stature who divided her life between Kiev, St.

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Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; May 30, 1887February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-born American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.

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Alma del Banco

Alma del Banco (24 December 1862 – 8 March 1943) was a German modernist painter.

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Amédée Ozenfant

Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer.

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Argentan

Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France.

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Arie Aroch

Arie Aroch (in Hebrew אריה ארוך; born 1908, in Russia – October 15, 1974, in Israel) was an Israeli painter and diplomat born in Kharkov, which was part of the Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine).

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Asger Jorn

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author.

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Aurélie Nemours

Aurélie Nemours (29 October 1910 – 27 January 2005) was a Parisian painter who made abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by De Stijl, or neoplasticism.

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École des Beaux-Arts

An École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) is one of a number of influential art schools in France.

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Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray).

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Beverly Pepper

Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art.

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Biot, Alpes-Maritimes

Biot is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.

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Central University of Venezuela

The Central University of Venezuela (or Universidad Central de Venezuela, UCV, in Spanish) is a premier public university of Venezuela located in Caracas.

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Charlotte Gilbertson

Charlotte Gilbertson (November 11, 1922 – April 12, 2014) was an American painter and printmaker.

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Charlotte Wankel

Charlotte Wankel (12 May 1888 – 2 August 1969) was a Norwegian painter regarded as one of the first Norwegian cubist and painters of abstract art.

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Christian Berg

Christian Berg (born 17 May 1978) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.

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Close-up

A close up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object.

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Collage

Collage (from the coller., "to glue") is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

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Communist party

A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.

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Davis Museum at Wellesley College

The Davis Museum in Wellesley, Massachusetts is located on the Wellesley College campus.

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Der Sturm

Der Sturm (The Storm) was a German art and literary magazine covering Expressionism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, among other artistic movements.

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Du "Cubisme"

Du "Cubisme", also written Du Cubisme, or Du « Cubisme » (and in English, On Cubism or Cubism), is a book written in 1912 by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger.

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Dudley Murphy

Dudley Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director.

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Erik Olson

Erik Artur Olson (Ohlson, Olsson) (born 9 May 1901 in Halmstad), married in 1929 to Solvig Sven-Nilsson, died in 1986, a painter, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, theater decorator, member of Halmstadgruppen.

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Essonne

Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.

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Figurative art

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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Florence Henri

Florence Henri (28 June 1893, New York City – 24 July 1982, Laboissière-en-Thelle) was a photographer and artist.

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Forest of Argonne

The Forest of Argonne is a long strip of rocky mountain and wild woodland in north-eastern three hours east of Paris France.

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Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia (born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist.

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French Army

The French Army, officially the Ground Army (Armée de terre) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force, Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.

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Futurism

Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

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George Antheil

George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.

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George L.K. Morris

George Lovett Kingsland Morris (November 14, 1905 – June 26, 1975) was an American artist, writer, and editor who advocated for an "American abstract art" during the 1930s and 1940s, and is best known for his Cubist sculptures and paintings.

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Georges Braque

Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.

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Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann (October 8, 1917 – November 2, 1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and executive for General Electric's aircraft engine division (which today is called GE Aviation).

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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Gif-sur-Yvette

Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in the south-western suburbs of Paris, France.

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Hananiah Harari

Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator.

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Hans Hartung

Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.

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Henri Le Fauconnier

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.

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Henri Rousseau

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) at the Guggenheim was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Jacques Lipchitz

Jacques Lipchitz (16 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor, from late 1914.

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Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.

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Jean Metzinger

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.

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Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.

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Joseph Csaky

Joseph Csaky (also written Josef Csàky, Csáky József, József Csáky and Joseph Alexandre Czaky) (18 March 1888 – 1 May 1971) was a Hungarian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, best known for his early participation as a sculptor in the Cubist movement.

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Jules Olitski

Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

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Kunstmuseum Basel

The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance.

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L'Inhumaine

L'Inhumaine ("the inhuman woman") is a 1924 French drama-science fiction film directed by Marcel L'Herbier; it has the subtitle histoire féerique ("fairy story", "story of enchantment").

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Lars Englund

Lars Englund (born May 6, 1933 in Stockholm) is a Swedish sculptor and painter active since 1953.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Lou Albert-Lasard

Lou Albert-Lasard (1885 in Metz – July 1969 in Paris) was an Expressionist painter.

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist.

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Lower Normandy

Lower Normandy (Basse-Normandie,; Basse-Normaundie) is a former administrative region of France.

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Man Ray

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France.

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Marc Chagall

Marc Zakharovich Chagall (born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin.

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Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups.

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Marcel Mouly

Marcel Mouly (February 6, 1918 – January 7, 2008) was a French artist who painted in an abstract style.

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Marcelle Cahn

Marcelle Cahn (March 1, 1895 - September 20, 1981) was a French painter and one of the members of Abstraction-Création.

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Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker.

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Marie Vassilieff

Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva (Russian: Мария Ивановна Васильева), (12 February 1884 – 14 May 1957), better known as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian Empire painter.

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Marlow Moss

Marjorie Jewel "Marlow" Moss (29 May 1889 – 23 August 1958) was a British Constructivist artist who worked in painting and sculpture.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Michael Loew

Michael Loew (May 8, 1907 – November 14, 1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City.

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Mills College Art Museum

Mills College Art Museum is a museum and art gallery in Oakland, California.

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Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), formerly known as the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is a fine art museum located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on a campus that covers nearly 8 acres (32,000 m²), formerly Morrison Park.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Montparnasse

Montparnasse(French) is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Nadia Khodasevich Léger

Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger (оўна Хадасе́віч-Леж) (23 September 1904 – 7 November 1982) was a French artist.

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Nadir Afonso

Nadir Afonso, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter.

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National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973).

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Netherlands Institute for Art History

The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis) is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Orne

Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Otto Gustaf Carlsund

Otto Gustaf Carlsund (1897–1948) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and art critic, connected to Cubism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, and Concrete art.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Paul Georges

Paul Georges (Paul G Georges, Paul Gordon Georges) (June 15, 1923 – April 16, 2002) was an American painter.

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Peter Agostini

Peter Agostini (February 13, 1913 Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – March 27, 1993) was an American sculptor.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Pinchas Burstein

Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), later known as Maryan S. Maryan, was a Polish-born Jewish post-expressionist painter.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Populism

In politics, populism refers to a range of approaches which emphasise the role of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite".

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Primary color

A set of primary colors is, most tangibly, a set of real colorants or colored lights that can be combined in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors.

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Purism

Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918 and 1925 that influenced French painting and architecture.

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Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor.

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René Margotton

René Margotton was a French painter of the School of Paris, one of the last cubists of the 20th century.

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Return to order

The return to order (Retour à l'ordre) was a European art movement that followed the First World War, rejecting the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and taking its inspiration from traditional art instead.

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Richard Stankiewicz

Richard Stankiewicz (1922–1983) was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal.

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Robert Colescott

Robert H. Colescott, (August 26, 1925 — June 4, 2009) was an American painter.

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Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.

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Salon d'Automne

The Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an annual art exhibition held in Paris, France since 1903; it is currently held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid October.

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

Saloua Raouda Choucair (سلوى روضة شقير; June 24, 1916 – January 26, 2017) was a Lebanese painter and sculptor.

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Sam Francis

Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Section d'Or

The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux (or Puteaux Group), was a collective of painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism.

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Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg;; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director.

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Société des Artistes Indépendants

The Société des Artistes Indépendants (Society of Independent Artists), Salon des Indépendants was formed in Paris on 29 July 1884.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris.

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Sulfur mustard

Sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, is the prototypical substance of the sulfur-based family of cytotoxic and vesicant chemical warfare agents known as the sulfur mustards which have the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs.

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Tarsila do Amaral

Tarsila do Amaral, (September 1, 1886 – January 17, 1973), known simply as Tarsila, is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style."Lucie-Smith, Edward.

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The City (Léger)

The City (French: La Ville) is a 1919 painting by French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger.

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Tsuguharu Foujita

was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings.

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Tubism

Tubism is a term coined by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1911 to describe the style of French artist Fernand Léger.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée Générale AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Verdun

Verdun (official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a small city in the Meuse department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Victor Reinganum

Victor Reinganum (1907–1995) was an artist and illustrator, probably best known for his illustrations on book dustjackets, including the first editions of Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).

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Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis

Villepinte is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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William Klein (photographer)

William Klein (born April 19, 1928) is an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.

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Yale School of Art

The Yale School of Art is the art school of Yale University.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yvelines

Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Léger

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