Le chandail vert 1946

Fernand Léger made *Le chandail vert*, sometime around 1946, with oil paint. I love how he uses flat planes of color, like bold building blocks, to construct this scene. It’s like he's saying, "Hey, painting is about process, about putting things together." Look at the thickness of the paint, those confident lines, and the textures, it's physical. You can almost see Léger pushing the paint around, figuring out how each color and form relates to the next. I'm particularly drawn to the way he uses black lines to define and separate the different colored areas; they act like a scaffold that holds the composition together, but they also add a graphic quality to the work. It is almost like a stained glass window. Léger's work reminds me a bit of Stuart Davis, who also loved to play with bold colors and geometric shapes. But Léger brings his own unique sensibility to the table, a kind of grounded, industrial aesthetic. Ultimately, art is about possibilities, about finding new ways to see and experience the world.