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1918, Fernand Léger, Les pistons [The Pistons] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Affiliated with the Cubists from its earliest days, Fernand Léger forged his own vocabulary of shapes, including cones and cylindrical forms, for which he was jokingly dubbed a 'Tubist. After World War I, Léger used these simple forms to create ordered compositions that celebrated modern machinery, factories and locomotion. Les pistons [The Pistons], 1918, which he painted soon after being demobilised from the army, depicts gleaming fly wheels and pistons interlocked within a matrix of flattened, brightly coloured geometric forms. Impersonal, inorganic and yet ineffably elegant, Les pistons [The Pistons] suggests the synchronised whirr, hiss and churn of well-running machinery and reflects Léger's sincere optimism for modern society.
1918, Fernand Léger, Les pistons [The Pistons] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Affiliated with the Cubists from its earliest days, Fernand Léger forged his own vocabulary of shapes, including cones and cylindrical forms, for which he was jokingly dubbed a 'Tubist. After World War I, Léger used these simple forms to create ordered compositions that celebrated modern machinery, factories and locomotion. Les pistons [The Pistons], 1918, which he painted soon after being demobilised from the army, depicts gleaming fly wheels and pistons interlocked within a matrix of flattened, brightly coloured geometric forms. Impersonal, inorganic and yet ineffably elegant, Les pistons [The Pistons] suggests the synchronised whirr, hiss and churn of well-running machinery and reflects Léger's sincere optimism for modern society.