Membership to the Keys, 1929, by Fernand Léger, strikes me as a very odd piece. This seems to be a time period filled with very abstract art. I have no idea what to make of this piece, which is one of the reasons I picked it. I first thought that many painters were creating these abstract paintings due to the mental stresses of the war. However, Léger had started painting abstract forms before he fought in the French Army.
The keys in this painting are the most dominant feature. I feel like these keys are those to some arcane secret. Maybe they are the keys that can put the rest of the objects in the painting together. I also think that they could be the keys to power, thrown in with some other arbitrary junk. Another part of the picture that really catches my attention is the arrangements of the straight lines. To me, they kind of appear to be the lines that make up the framework of a three dimensional graph. However, the vertical line does not line up with the intersection of the other two lines, which would normally be the case in a mathematical model. This more than anything gives the painting a very unbalanced look when I inspect it. All of the other shapes are relatively meaningless to me. The thing on the left might be the moon, but the keys and the lines leave the greatest impression on me.
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