The French artist Fernand Leger was one of the great artists and teachers in the first development of modern art forms....Leger was one of the first artists to directly treat the modern confrontation of man and mechanization in the style of his work. His paintings, indeed, were often composed as gigantic, complex machines themselves, giving the effect of industrial components in an operating system. His explorations ranged from abstraction to stylized figure painting, arriving at powerful compositions which orchestrated contemporartary life oin balances of natural and mechanical forms.

Source: DMAC Bulletin, January 1968