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The story that MoMA's show tells about Léger--his heroic struggle with Cézanne, his escape into abstraction, his flirtation with competing schools of Modernism, his late monumentality--is the same story that MoMA's permanent collection tells, with Picasso as the hero.
It's as though after wrestling long and hard with Cézanne's dictum that the artist should paint the world of nature in terms of spheres, cylinders, and cones, Léger realized: Hey, here's an environment that's actually made of these shapes!
Critics decry the show for showcasing the old boys (Cézanne, Picasso, Jasper Johns) to the exclusion of women, minorities, and newer artists.
His extraordinary Card Game (1917) uses those "contrasting forms" to reconfigure a traditional genre subject (Cézanne's Card Players is the most familiar example).
MoMA's story of modern art, beginning with Cézanne and ending with abstraction, has been confirmed, but at a cost.