When I first began painting again in 2018 I found myself looking back in time a good bit. I don’t recall spending a lot of time on Léger in undergrad- the new found interest had to do with both his heavy use of black and the way he breaks up space (to me his paintings live in a space between being pre-Greenbergian surfaces and complex, implied spaces).

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