Horsehead on yellow Background

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Who is depicted? It represents the head of a horse. -- Technical/Specification about the statue The movement was founded by Edouard Jeanneret (better known as modern architect Le Corbusier) and Amédée Ozenfant. They set out purism theory in book Après le Cubisme (After Cubism) published in 1918. They criticized cubism fragmentation and its decorative nature by that time. Instead, they proposed a type of painting where objects are represented as powerful basic forms stripped of detail. Fernand Léger was another key artist associated with purism. A crucial element of purism was its embracing technology and the machine, giving mechanical and industrial subject matter timeless, classical quality. References to ancient Greek architecture can be seen in fluting on bottles in Ozenfant's still life compositions. Purism reached a climax in Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau (Pavilion of New Spirit), built in 1925 for International Exposition of Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. This was hung with work by three principals and also included cubists Juan Gris and Jacques Lipchitz. After this, the key relationship between Ozenfant and Le Corbusier broke up. -- More about the artist Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles, Yvelines, in 1902-1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending three empty and useless years studying with Gérôme and others, while also studying at the Académie Julian. He began working seriously as a painter only at age 25. At this point his work showed impressionist influence, seen in Le Jardin de ma mère (My Mother's Garden) of 1905, one of few paintings from this period that he did not later destroy. A new emphasis on drawing and geometry appeared in Léger's work after seeing the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne in 1907.