THE HUMAN FIGURE IN LE CORBUSIER'S WORK:A study on Le Corbusier's production No.14
The purpose of this study, based on the series of Le Corbusier's Production 14, is to clarify the meaning of the human figure in Le Corbusier's work. Through his work of strong correlation between paintings and architecture, Le Corbusier's realizes a symbolic human figure for the Modern Age. This human figure consists of three aspects for Le Corbusier's : his early paintings of Purism, the expression of bodies in folklore, and his self-consciousness as an individual traveling in the Orient. The most important point, however, is that his work exists in a transcendental mechanics reflected in his early paintings, which show the construction of still lives. It shoud be noted that the transcendental human body as a separated individual re-finds a link of circle, a solidarity in the Modern Age, in the square of the Open Hand in Chandigarh which is a remarkable development of the representation of the “hand” in his paintings.