Nearness and remoteness
Fernand Leger, Men in the City (Les Hommes dans la ville), 1919
“In the urban themes of this period the human figure becomes as de-individualized and mechanized as the environment it occupies. Leger is able to express the rhythmic energy of contemporary life by finding its pictorial equivalent … Form, color, and shape confront one another in a multitude of relations, creating single images that capture simultaneous sensations.” (via)
Reminds me of Simmel’s stranger:
“The unity of nearness and remoteness involved in every human relation is organized, in the phenomenon of the stranger, in a way which may be most briefly formulated by saying that in the relationship to him, distance means that he, who is close by, is far, and strangeness means that he, who also is far, is actually near…”