Léger 1910-1930. The vision of the contemporary city

To Léger and the extraordinary experience garde European art, which developed in the stimulating environment of Paris in the early post-war years of the twentieth century, the Civic Museums Foundation of Venice, in collaboration with The Philadelphia Museum of Art, a great exhibit that addresses the issue of representation the contemporary city.
  A major exhibition addresses the issue of the representation of the contemporary city through the works of the French artist.
"If the pictorial expression has changed, it is because modern life has requested ...
The view from the window of the railway carriage and car, combined with the speed, alter the usual appearance of things.
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist ...
The compression of the modern framework, its variety, its decomposition forms are the result of all this. "
Fernand Léger, 1914

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