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Additional cultural and artistic information about the artist
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The Estaque (1906), The Large Nude (1908), The Man with the Guitar (1912)
Fauvism, Cubism, Analytical Cubism
He began with fauvism, and it was Matisse and Derain who influenced him in his research around color and the juxtaposition of colors. But it was the black outline surrounding the reliefs of Paul Cézanne that led him to cubism!
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Paul Gauguin
Without causing as much controversy as his Spanish accomplice, Pablo Picasso, he managed to impose Cubism through a long process of shaping space and researching materials. His "Great Nude", to be seen alongside the "Demoiselles d'Avignon", which ushered painting into the 20th century of modernity, perfectly illustrates the eternal quest of this discreet man: starting from the evidence of a gaze to reach the strength, the absolute of a vision.
Through his collages and arrangements of the relationship between shapes and colors, Braque is the thinker of Cubism, more than Picasso the instinctive!
Seriously injured during World War I, Braque returned to a more classical painting style in the 1930s, before moving back towards a simplification of forms, notably with his series on birds in the 1950s.
Georges Braque was born in 1882 in Argenteuil (Val d'Oise), but his family moved to Le Havre when he was only 8 years old, a city where he would grow up and study painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Coming late to Fauvism after being moved by the paintings exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne, he quickly left it behind when he discovered "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso in 1907.
The first steps of "Cubism" (as named by Vauxcelles, the art critic, borrowing a term from Matisse who exclaimed upon seeing Braque's "Maisons à l'Estaque" that Braque was cutting space into "small cubes") are now laid. Braque and Picasso worked together until 1914, when the former was mobilized and then seriously wounded in the head (he was indeed trepanned).
After the war, and a long convalescence, Braque resumed painting while remaining faithful to Cubism, simply evolving it to perfection, as seen in the famous painting "Fruits on a tablecloth and fruit bowl" in 1925.
He passed away in August 1963 in Paris, but was buried in the marine cemetery of Varengeville-sur-Mer (Normandy), a village he had chosen to live in.
(c) Natacha PELLETIER for PASSION ESTAMPES
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