Structural analysis of Fernand Leger's [Bathers] and [Polychrome flower] Ⅰ

I haven't written about Léger as a modern artist until now.

This time I tried a google image search.

There are far more unfamiliar paintings than I find in my art books.

Our time is the era of digital image art: free from commercial art world.

I will make arc models of two works by Léger.

　　　　　　　　Fernand Leger La Fleur polychrome　1936


                      Fernand Leger La Fleur polychrome　arc model
We can draw all the lines with 21 types of circles. (scale21)

　　　　　　　　Fernand Leger [The Bathers] 1953


　                     Fernand Leger [The Bathers] arc model
We can draw all the lines with 15 types of circles.

The first sign of modern art is the emphasis on curvature.

Any refined drawing will consist only arcs of limited circles.

It can be seen in the works of Van Gogh and Gauguin in their later period, which is one of the formal characteristics of post-Impressionism.

We find this characteristic more clearly in the late works of Cézanne and Seurat.

Cezanne [6 Bathers] lithograph arc model
                                

It is one of the most completed bathing paintings.

The work is colored lithograph and signed.



   Seurat [Grand Judd]arc model

This painting must have a solid design underneath ready for coloring in pointillistic manner.

I collected arc models in my previous blog “every harmonious masterpiece is made of arcs Harunobu [Momijimai] 2 ark model”.


I pick up only modern artworks here.  

Matisse, who was one of the first to realize the importance of Cézanne's bather paintings, painted large dance paintings.


Matisse [DanceⅡ]　arc model (7 scale)

Picasso made extensive use of this arc model in the 1930s.



Cézanne's apples are often made by splicing different arcs of the same circle.



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