1921, Fernand Leger, The Fisherman -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: With a few colours and geometric shapes, Léger created an image of modern mankind in a mechanised world. Depicted are three faceless figures, which only the title reveals to be fishermen, in a seemingly unnatural landscape. Léger was convinced of the industrialisation's positive effects. He wanted to depict the hitherto altered society of the early 20th century and developed a formal language following Cubism: figures, objects and pictorial spaces are composed of simple, curved shapes and tubes (French: 'tubes'); this is why Léger's work is also referred to as 'tubism'.
1921, Fernand Leger, The Fisherman -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: With a few colours and geometric shapes, Léger created an image of modern mankind in a mechanised world. Depicted are three faceless figures, which only the title reveals to be fishermen, in a seemingly unnatural landscape. Léger was convinced of the industrialisation's positive effects. He wanted to depict the hitherto altered society of the early 20th century and developed a formal language following Cubism: figures, objects and pictorial spaces are composed of simple, curved shapes and tubes (French: 'tubes'); this is why Léger's work is also referred to as 'tubism'.