Enlargement Quote by Fernand Leger

“Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.” quote by Fernand Leger — Download Open image

“Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.”

Fernand Leger

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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

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