the grand parade fernand leger

the grand parade fernand legerIn The Grand Parade, Fernand Lger depicts a festive world teeming with characters, acrobats, horsemen and figures inspired by the world of the circus and the performing arts. The composition is dense, constructed like a grand fresco in which characters, objects and machines come together to form a lively and colourful scene. The forms are simplified, outlined in bold black lines, and the primary colours give the whole a joyful and highly graphic

symbolising life and resilience

A painting of monumental dimensions

shadows and reflections on the clothes of the figures and on the vegetation

surrounded by an explosion of vibrant colours and patterns

reflects Matisse's growing interest in primitive art and its simplified forms

as is (almost) always the case in the works of this Russian-Swiss painter

The shades of blue and green-blue contrast with the reddish-brown of the mountain

juicy to dry - is rendered with precision

and black crows

An unreal and ghostly silhouette

This movement embodies a spiritual aspiration that points to art as a means of salvation from the materialism of the time

This post-impressionist painting reveals the delicate beauty of a peach tree in full bloom