leisure tribute to louis david fernand leger

leisure tribute to louis david fernand legerWith Leisure Tribute to Louis David, Fernand Lger confronts French pictorial tradition with scenes from modern life. The title refers to Jacques Louis David, a major figure in history painting, but Lger transposes this heritage into a contemporary context. He replaces ancient heroes with ordinary characters and introduces objects related to leisure and urban life. The work thus questions the place of the body and the collective in a society marked by

where the game becomes a pretext for exploring the rhythmic power of forms and the modernity of materials

authentic scene of a man at work

The interior is richly furnished: patterned red armchairs

The painting shows the artist's interest in urban life

which seeks to express energy and movement through abstraction

with a quick

would lastingly influence younger painters such as Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard

armed with a saber and draped in a coat puffed up by the wind that rushes through its folds

giving rise to this violent and poignant work

seem sculpted in light

the expressionist painter deconstructs the form of objects and creates powerful colour contrasts

the artist represents his subject in the style of the old Japanese sages on a background saturated with brightly colored Japanese prints