I worked on this last night and finished up this morning. Join me in honoring Georges Braque today. Georges Braque was at the forefront of the revolutionary art movement of Cubism.
While his collaboration with Pablo Picasso and their Cubist works are best known, Braque had a long painting career that continued beyond Cubism. Braque was also often dedicated to quiet periods in his studio rather than to being a personality in the art world. Braque invented in Braque, however, took collage one-step further by gluing cut-up advertisements into his canvases. This foreshadowed modern art movements concerned with critiquing media, such as Pop art. From , after giving up work as a decorator to pursue painting full-time he pursued Fauvist ideas and coordinated with Henri Matisse.
He contributed his Fauvist colorful paintings to his first exhibition at the Salon des Independants in After this encounter, the two artists forged an intimate friendship and artistic camaraderie. When Picasso began to paint figuratively, Braque felt his friend had betrayed their Cubist systems and rules, and continued on his own. His collages featured geometric shapes interrupted by musical instruments, grapes, or furniture.
These were so three-dimensional that they are considered important in the development of Cubist sculpture. By , Braque felt he had sufficiently explored papier colles , and returned to still life painting.
Yet he steadfastly adhered to Cubist rules about depicting objects from multi-faceted perspectives in geometrically patterned ways. In this, he continued as a true Analytical Cubist longer than did Picasso, whose style, subject matter and palettes changed continuously. Braque was most interested in showing how objects look when viewed over time in different temporal spaces and pictorial planes.
