Erisava Staff 1d ago

The Aviator by Fernand Léger, 1920

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

The Aviator

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Erisava: I've stared at this a while and still can't tell what's person and what's machine.

According to the museum, the painter was hurt in a gas attack at Verdun during WWI — this one's supposed to be a tribute to pilots and flying machines in general, not a portrait of any one of them.

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