The great tug 1923

Fernand Léger made this painting, The Great Tug, with oil on canvas, and it's a feast of hard-edged shapes doing a funny kind of dance. The way Léger uses color here is so unapologetic, right? Like, he's not trying to blend anything; he just slaps these bold colors next to each other, making everything pop. And the shapes—they're like machine parts but also kind of organic, hinting at something bigger than themselves. I’m really drawn to the black semi-circle near the center. It feels like it wants to be a circle, but he stops it short. That tension gives the whole piece this electric energy. Léger reminds me a bit of Stuart Davis, you know? Both of them taking the everyday world and turning it into something totally new, something buzzing with life. Art isn't about answers, it's more about keeping the conversation going.