Divers
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Fernand Léger
G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±8" x 8" or 20 x 20 cm
2026
The man on my painting is enjoying a painting by Fernand Léger. His Divers (or Les Plongeurs) is a celebrated series of paintings and drawings initiated in the 1940s that depicts entangled human bodies in mid-motion.
The initial inspiration came to Léger in 1940 when watching divers in Marseille and, later, a crowded swimming pool in the United States.
The chaotic, tangled mass of limbs was his way of capturing the aggressive speed, motion, and overwhelming sensory experience of modern life.
All the best, Gerard
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