vendredi 27 juin 2014

Paintings Of Georges Braque

By Darren Hartley


Georges Braque paintings began developing a Cubist style after Georges met Pablo Picasso although Georges started out as a member of the Fauves. Georges' and Pablo's paintings shared many similarities in palette, style and subject matter. Georges was also often dedicated to quiet periods spent in his studio as opposed to being a personality in the art world.

Georges took papier colles, a pasted paper collage technique that he and Pablo Picasso invented in 1912, one step further, through the gluing of cut-up advertisements into his Cubist Georges Braque paintings. This was actually a foreshadowing of modern art movements concerned with critiquing media, including Pop art.

The earliest Georges Braque paintings pursued Fauvist ideas, in coordination with Henri Matisse. In 1906, Georges contributed his colourful Fauvist paintings in his first exhibition held at the Salon de Independants. It was in 1907 that he became extremely affected by a visit to Pablo Picasso's studio.

Despite breaking up with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque paintings continued to be influenced by Pablo's works, particularly in relation to papier colles, a collage technique they pioneered together using only pasted paper.

Georges Braque paintings featured geometric shapes interrupted by musical instruments, grapes or furniture. Their being so three-dimensional contributed to their consideration as important to the development of Cubist sculpture.

In the 1930s, Georges Braque paintings portrayed Greek horses and deities, stripped of their symbolism and viewed through a purely formal lens. They were exercises in calligraphy because they were not strictly about figures, rather more about sheer lines and shapes.




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