George Braque and the Cubist Art Movement

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The writer asks the question of why George Braque did not enjoy the same renown as Pablo Picasso. The paper looks at the history of the artistic life of Braque and gives an overview of his work, noting the maturation and development of style. The paper concludes with the assertion that Braque is the father of cubism because he created the first analytic work.

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"During the summer of 1908 in southern France, Braque painted a series of radically innovative canvases, of which the most celebrated is "Houses at L'Estaque"; in this painting we can see the slab volumes, sober coloring, and warped perspective typical of the first part of what has been called the analytical phase of Cubism. This painting was shown in a show at Kahnweiler's gallery. It provoked from the Paris critic Louis Vauxcelles a remark about "cubes" that soon blossomed into a stylistic label. This painting was the painting that gave cubism its name. Vauxcelles's remarked about the canvas being full of small cubes, and this comment was the spark that constituted the name of the movement."

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