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He brought the same zeal to his own collections, asking Picasso to weave tapestries out of his own paintings, and Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger to create murals for his Fifth Avenue apartment.
The alienation of modern life--a central theme in the work of Léger's literary friends Henry Miller and Blaise Cendrars--doesn't enter the painter's resolutely optimistic vision.
Léger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.
But there's another way to think of Léger's development.
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.