The document discusses the concept of mechanical style in art. It provides context that mechanical arts were historically seen as skills for common people rather than the elite liberal arts. Mechanical style is characterized by precisely fitted geometric shapes. The document focuses on French artist Fernand Leger as a pioneer of this style. It provides biographical details on Leger and describes some of his most famous works from the early 20th century that featured mechanical elements in a Cubist style, including paintings like "The City" and "Soldier with a Pipe".

1. What is Mechanical
Style?

2. Artes mechanicae (mechanical
arts) are a medieval concept of
ordered practices or skills, often
juxtaposed to the traditional seven
liberal arts (artes liberales). Also
called "servile" and "vulgar", from
antiquity they had been deemed
"unbecoming" for a free man, as
they minister to basic needs.

3. Having skills in the use of
machinery or tools. Produced or
operated by machinery or
mechanism. Of, in accordance
with, or using the principles and
terminology of the science of
mechanics.

4. What are the characteristics of
Mechanical style?

5. MECHANICAL STYLE
• In this style, basic forms such as
planes, cones, spheres, and
cylinders all fit together precisely
and neatly in their appointed
places.

6. Artist of the
Mechanical Style

7. Fernand Leger was among the
prolific artists in the 20th century.
The prominent artist was based in
Paris, France. Fernand came up
with a famous artwork known as a
mechanical element. He
developed this artwork when he
was working with machines and
modern technology during the
mechanical period.
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger

8. Fernand Léger was a French
painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In
his early works, he created a
personal form of cubism — known
as “tubism” — which he gradually
modified into a more figurative,
populist style. He is best known for,
though, are his large scale paintings
and murals.

9. Examples of Fernand Léger Art Works

10. Set against a framework
of thick, black horizontal
and vertical lines, Léger's
"mechanical elements"
are composed of tightly
interlocking circles,
ellipses, curves,
diagonals, rectangles,
dots, and groups of
parallel wavy lines.
Mechanical Elements

11. The City
The City is a 1919 painting by
French painter and sculptor
Fernand Léger. The painting
is Cubist in style and is now in
the Philadelphia Museum of
Art.
Leger drew inspiration from
his time as a soldier during
World War I. The City was
created just three years after
leaving the war camp.

12. Soldier with a Pipe
Soldier with a Pipe is a
cubist painting by
Fernand Leger from
1916, during his spell in
military service. The
original can now be
found at the
Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Düsseldorf in Germany.

13. Group Presentation from Nanay Perot
• Canumay, Princess Jean
• Antoque, Ma. Niña Rose
• Macalipay, Heart
• Baldero, Charlyn Grace
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