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Fernand Leger

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The love of simplicity, precision and clarity, is totally Western. Today’s rational plastic form does not come from the Mediterranean or the Orient; it comes from the North (of France, fh). The North, younger, quicker less subtle, has seen straight to the heart of the new problem of construction that is posed by modern life.
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Actualités, Fernand Léger, in Varietés nr. 1, 1928, pp. 523-524

 
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