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we were in...made me want to paint in slang with all its color and mobility.[4]
This painting marked the beginning of his "mechanical period", during which the figures and
objects he created were characterized by sleekly rendered tubular and machine-like forms.
Starting in 1918, he also produced the first paintings in the Disk series, in which disks
suggestive of traffic lights figure prominently.[5] In December 1919 he married Jeanne-
Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met Le Corbusier, who would remain a lifelong friend.
The "mechanical" works Léger painted in the 1920s, in their formal clarity as well as in
their subject matter--the mother and child, the female nude, figures in an ordered landscape
--are typical of the postwar "return to order" in the arts, and link him to the tradition of
French figurative painting represented by Poussin and Corot.[6] In his paysages animés
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