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The age we live in is largely – and I think mostly – 'objective', but a minority is reacting against this... My feeling is that I made
colour
– the
colour
plane – 'objective' in 1918, 1920 and 1921. There is a feeling of objectivity in all the great Primitives – but in 'the subject' there is no solution for the object, which has so much intrinsic value that it is 'highly explosive'; it destroys all the things around it, unless they have been designed specifically to serve as a setting for it.
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In 1942 when I was in New York, I was struck by the neon advertisements flashing all over Broadway. You are there, you talk to someone, and all of a sudden he turns blue. Then the
colour
fades - another one comes and turns him red or yellow. The
colour
– the
colour
of neon advertising is free; it exists in space. I wanted to do the same in my canvases.
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I dispersed my objects in space and got them to hold together by making them radiate forwards, out of the picture. It's all an easy interplay of chords and rhythms made up of foreground and background
colours
, of conducting lines, of distances and of contrasts.
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The mural artist is concerned with bringing to life dead surfaces by the application of
colour
.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frédéric Bastiat
Fernand Léger
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Born:
February 4, 1881
Died:
August 17, 1955
(aged 74)
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