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May 13, 1882 - August 31, 1963
Georges Braque was a French painter and sculptor, and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of cubism.

Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from about 1897 to 1899.

Violin and Candlestick, Paris, spring 1910 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)Braque was injured in the First World War, after which he moved away from the harsher abstraction of cubism.

Braque

Picassos rope man
1882-1963

if you were going to invent a new art movement it would be a mistake to do it with a self-publicist and artist as skillful as one Picasso. But this was the mistake that dear old Braque made, helping to change art completely in less than a decade. Such a huge endeavour - changing the way we put down what we see, making the first steps into a road that would lead inexorably to abstraction and dead end modernism.

Picasso has had most of the plaudits, but Braque was there all the way, checking ropes, puting in protection and making sure that the myth of the great man grew and was diminished by too much reality. he was there and that was all he needed.

So they came to cubism, a strange term. Braque was sick of only being able to portray one side of his model at once. he moved on, and suddenly realised, why can I not show all the sides? i am in charge, this peice of canvas is only a tool in my hands. And so he began to climb the mountain he had ste for himself, mainly using greys and browns, which is a bit of a durge when you see them all at once in an exhibition

A great painter.

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