Artist Georges Braque

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This paper explains that, in 1907, Georges Braque, who initially was greatly influenced by Henri Matisse, with his friend Pablo Picasso, rediscovered Paul Cezanne, the originator of the Cubist movement. Braque's style went through a radical transformation. The author points out that, within a three year period, Picasso and Braque invented Analytic Cubism, a new, completely non-illusionistic and non-imitative method of depicting the visual world; the collaboration between Braque and Picasso was so close and intense that often only experts can distinguish Braque's painting of 1910 -1912 from those of Picasso. The paper relates that Cubism, which survived in its purest form until the mid-1920s, had an impact on the art world that extended far beyond the existence of the painting style itself and paved the way for several other art revolutions, including Dada and surrealism.

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"From 1917 to 1920, Georges Braque's works are derived compositionally from Synthetic Cubism, which is the second phase of Cubism and began around 1914. These paintings were much flatter and more "variegated in color," and included "brightly dotted decorative passages." Sometime around 1930, Braque moved to the coast of Normandy in France, and as a result, the subject of this paintings changed, and now included bathers, beach scenes, and seascapes as his favorite themes, while stylistically, he "became increasingly interested in ornamentation and patterned surfaces." By the early 1940's, Braque was concerned with melancholy themes, and from 1945, birds became a dominant subject. And then by the 1950's, Braque had returned to the brilliant colors of the Fauve period, "as in the Louvre ceiling, 1952-53, and the decoration for the villa at Saint Paul-de-Vence, 1954." Georges Braque remained active until the end of his life, and his work includes sculpture, graphics, book illustration and decorative art."

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