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Contrast of Forms

As for Synthetic Cubism, typically characterized by the incorporation of collage and papier colles into the painting, Leger avoided this almost entirely, favouring instead an increasingly abstract art, featuring conical, cube-like forms within rough areas of primary colours plus green, black and white, as exemplified by Contrast of Forms (1913).

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His divergence from the Cubist mainstream (and his receptiveness to ideas propounded by the Italian Futurists) was also illustrated by his membership - along with artists Jacques Villon, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Metzinger, among others - in the Cubist splinter group known as the Section d'Or group).

Leger was influenced during this time by Italian Futurism, and by Robert Delaunay's Orphism, and his paintings, from then until 1914, became increasingly abstract. (See also: abstract painters.)

World War I: Effect on Leger's Art

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