Saturday

Leger Art In Denmark

From 5 Feb, Denmark's ARKEN Gallery is showing Picasso's rival, Fernand Leger. With more than 90 works spotlighting Leger's visions of man in the new age, the art exhibition is the first wide presentation in Denmark of his work. Intent on a radical break from his Impressionist style of painting, in 1908 he destroyed the bulk of his art. He found them too harmonious and too far from his vision of the modern. He wanted the dynamic, chaotic, contrastive city culture to pervade his work. Like Picasso, Leger became one of the premier modernists in the first half of the twentieth century. For the full story - click the title Irish Art