Whimsical, subversive, creative genious, enfant terrible... all and none of these categories could fully describe Francis Picabia's complex personality. His Art and life were so intrinsically connected that it is fairly impossible to determine which came first: whether his Art as a projection of his life, or this latter as the reflection of his artistic perspectives. In any case, both in life and his creations he would not even bother to distinguish between intimate, public, private, trivial or serious feelings, thoughts and impulses. This obsession with searching for the most accurate and genuine way of expressing his interior state led him to some sort of race against status quo and artificially established ideas, guided by the principle: “The only way to be followed is to run faster than the others”.
Always transforming, mutating, revolving, Fernand Léger's artistic search can be said to encompass such a wide spectrum as that which ranges from Impressionism to Pop Art. During his first steps as a painter, he adopted a technique which mixed Impressionism with Fauvism. Later on, he took a more Cubist approach, bending later this style into Tubism and its peculiar tubular, conical, and cubed forms. In the mid-1920s Léger adhered to the French formalist movement called Purism: a rational, mathematically based current which originated as an attempt to uproot Cubism from its impetuosity. This was subsequently revised in 1930s, when -influenced by Surrealism- his style evolved into a more curvilinear and unrestricted.
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