Fernand Léger was born in 1881 and was a French painter, sculptor and film-maker. He lived in a time where the industrial revolution had completely overrun society and machines were becoming increasingly indispensable to the lives of factory workers, and even in the home. Unlike many of the artists of his time, Léger did not revolt against the industrial world surrounding him, but embraced it and portrayed it in a positive light in his paintings. He would seek to illustrate a friendship between man and machine by showing the two working together. His work is very colourful and is said to be a predecessor of Pop-Art.
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