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Monday 30 June 2014

Georges Braque Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Georges Braque paintings were at the forefront of the revolutionary art movement of Cubism. They focused on still lives and on means of viewing objects from various perspectives through color, line and texture. Georges is best known for Cubist works done in collaboration with Pablo Picasso. However, Georges himself has a long painting career that continued beyond Cubism.

Georges stencilled letters onto his Georges Braque paintings. He also blended pigments with sand as well as copied wood grain and marble. All these he did for the achievement of dimension in his paintings. His still life depiction is so abstract. It actually borders on becoming patterns of expression of an essence in the object views instead of direct representations.

Georges Braque paintings took a drastic change in 1907 after Georges seeing Pablo Picasso's breakthrough work in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The encounter led to an intimate friendship and artistic camaraderie between the two painters. They would get together every single day to discuss and assay the ideas that were forming in their individual heads and to compare their respective works.

Understanding Pablo Picasso's goals, Georges aimed to strengthen the constructive elements in his Georges Braque paintings while foregoing of the expressive excesses of Fauvism. It was from his landscape paintings of scenes distilled into basic shapes and colors, that French art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, drew inspiration from, to coin the term Cubism, to describe Georges' work as bizarreries cubiques.

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.

As a result of Georges' dedication to depicting space in various ways, other than his Georges Braque paintings, he naturally gravitated to designing sets and costumes for theatre and ballet performances throughout the 1920s. Georges took up landscape painting again in 1929, this time using new, bright colors influenced by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.




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