Modern Classics - About the artist and his painting:

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) was a French painter and graphic artist. Influenced by analytical cubism, he developed his own style demonstrating the representational nature of realism and everyday features with simple geometric shapes. Cubes, cones and cylinders are frequently recurring elements in his work. Large-scale with broad contouring of the shapes, his pieces incorporate bright, vibrant colors. The sharp contrast of color reinforces his paintings and thus became a basic principle of Léger‘s works as a whole.

Les deux femmes au perroquet (1954, ceramic relief) 

The ceramic relief shows two women and a parrot. In the background, you can see trees and leaves. The figures are divided into shapes, each with broad contouring, which seem to be placed together like a puzzle. The contrasting colors bring out the different shapes and allow the viewer to perceive each individual figure separately. Léger uses only 7 different colors that are complimentary to each other. This creates a certain liveliness in the image, which is further enhanced by the vertical composition.

What does this resource contain?

• Postcards (5.8 x 4.1 in)
• Miniature (5.9 x 4.7 in) 
• Study painting (8.3 x 6.7 in)
  
• Group Work Poster (32.7 x 26.8 in)

How can I make the group work poster?

1. Print all template pages for the poster on white printing paper.
   
2. Color or paint the individual sheets according to the template or your own imagination. Make sure that the dotted lines around the outside remain visible.
   
3. Once dry, cut out the colored sheets along the dotted lines and sort them- each letter in a separate pile. Then sort them by number so that 1 is on top and 4 is on the bottom.
   
4. Glue all ‘A’ sheets together. To do so, apply glue to the long tab on the right side of sheet A1 and glue sheet A2 on top of it so that its left edge is aligned with the solid line. Glue A3 to A2, A4 to A3 and so on until the first row is complete. Repeat this process with all rows.
5. Now glue row B’s upper edge to the tab on the lower edge of row A. Then glue row C to row B and so on until all rows are glued together. Your poster is finished!