Walking Flower, Fernand Léger, 1952/1953; cast 1982/1983
Fernand Léger肖像Fernand Léger法国, 1881–1955

Walking Flower

1952/1953; cast 1982/1983 · Sculpture · 312.4 × 259.1 cm

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This colorful, towering flower seems to walk toward us with outstretched arms. A pair of "legs"--one orange, one black--extend from a central blue and white "body." The orange right leg takes a deliberate step forward as if to stabilize the form. Four additional elements radiate from the center. At the top of the sculpture, the white and orange petal serves as the flower's "head." Three extended "arms" in green, red, and white flank the head. Fernand Léger began creating glazed ceramics around 1950. These works were almost immediately celebrated for their adventurous use of pure, saturated color which was unusual for sculpture. Léger developed the animated flower subject in his paintings of the 1930s and returned to the motif on many occasions. For Léger, the forms of nature were an antidote to the pressures of an increasingly fast-paced and mechanized world.

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Fernand Léger当时的生活

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  1. 1952

    The 26th Venice Biennale

    In 1952 Léger takes part in the 26th Venice Biennale. In April he has an exhibition and gives a lecture at the Kunsthalle in Bern, and there are exhibitions at Paris galleries and at Sidney Janis's gallery in New York.

  2. 21 February 1952

    Marriage to Nadia Khodossevitch and a home in Gif-sur-Yvette

    On 21 February 1952 Léger marries Nadia Khodossevitch, a cousin of the poet, who had been a student of his Academy since 1924 and later its assistant. They settle in the Gros-Tilleul quarter of Gif-sur-Yvette.

  3. 1953

    A touring exhibition in Japan

    In 1953 an exhibition of Léger's work tours Japan; his work is also shown at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and in San Francisco, and an exhibition of coloured sculptures is held at the Louis Carré gallery.

  4. 1955

    The Grand Prix in São Paulo and a retrospective in Lyon

    In 1955 Léger receives the Grand Prix at the São Paulo Art Biennial, and a retrospective exhibition of his work is held at the Lyon museum.

  5. 1955年7月16日–1955年9月18日

    Exhibition: documenta

  6. 1955年8月17日

    Died

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