On Monday 27th January 2014 everyone in the Art & Design course went up to see an
exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and we were told to write a review
about one of the pieces we saw at the exhibit. This one in particular is called 'Tree Trunk on Yellow Ground' by Fernand Leger which I was drawn to, the first thing that stood out at me was the bright colours obviously but I then looked at it more and saw what the meaning was behind it.
In 1943 fernand travelled to Montreal and on the way chanced upon an abandoned farm, close to the Canadian border. He was impressed by the broken farm machinery and junk piled up in the fields, he returned the following two summers to make a series of paintings. The motifs depicted here include a broken wheel, a road sign and wired mesh. The broken 'SLOW' road sign,coupled with the spoke of the broken wheel, can now be read as 'US LOVE'.
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