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The ever-legible Leger
CHRISTINE LINDEY pays tribute to an outstanding artist whose work always aimed to be accessible
(R to L) The Homage to Louis David, 1948-9 and The Three Musicians, 1930
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
AN EXACT contemporary of Picasso, Fernand Leger was born in 1881 in the Normandy market town of Argentan to an argumentative cattle merchant and a gentle mother.
He lost his father when he was very young and his widowed parent gradually lost most of their possessions. Although Leger’s heart was in painting, she apprenticed him to an architect when he turned 16, believing this to be a more respectable profession. This training in precise draughtsmanship served him well and shines through his mature works.
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