Une femme devant le paysage 1921

Fernand Léger made "Une femme devant le paysage" with oil paint and likely a few brushes, though his style is more about the composition than the brushstrokes. Léger's painting is like a construction site, isn't it? Look at how the hard edges create defined shapes, like the blue of the curtain on the left or her cool, almost robotic gaze. The woman’s dress, with its blue and white polka dots, is the only real pattern, yet it seems to be a construction element as well. He's playing with the idea of geometry and how it intersects with the human form. It's like he's saying, "We're all just a series of shapes, lines, and colors." In its fragmented approach to figuration, I can see a connection to the work of Picasso or Braque, but Léger has his own thing going on. It is this approach, to both represent and abstract form, that makes his paintings so interesting.