BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: FERNAND LEGER

Painter, born in Argentan, NW France. He studied in Paris, and helped to form the Cubist movement, but later developed his own ‘aesthetic of the machine’ as seen in ‘Contrast of Forms’ (1913, Philadelphia). He also designed theatre sets, taught at Yale University, and painted murals for the UN building in New York (1952). He collaborated on the first ‘art-film’, Le Ballet mécanique, in 1923, and there is a museum dedicated to his work at Biot on the Côte d'Azur.