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So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.
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!
The painter of the machine age: That's the standard line on the French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955).
has a primitive, Easter Island look: Léger paints a holly leaf in exactly the same black-on-red idiom, as though the nude woman is a botanical exhibit.
It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.