Georges Braque

Braque, Georges





Georges Braque was born May 13 1882 BirthArgenteuil-sur-Seine, France.
Died Aug 31 1963 deathParis.

A crucial change in Braque’s art came in the fall of 1907, when he rediscovered Paul Cezanne at the memorial exhibitions at the Salon d’Automne and the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery. At this time, he also met Picasso. In the late work of Cezanne, both Braque and Picasso saw a new geometrization of form and new spatial relationships that were to become the basis of cubism.(Grolier)

Categories: Painting Cubism Fauvism Assemblage Documenta Kassel

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Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied art. His early work was characterized by a conservative impressionist manner derived from artists such as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind. While the lessons of postimpressionism eluded him at first, he emerged as a modernist painter following his revelatory experience of fauvism at the Salon d’automne in 1905…
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Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there from about 1897 to 1899. He left for Paris to study under a master decorator to receive his craftsman certificate in 1901. From 1902 to 1904, he painted at the Académie Humbert in Paris, where he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia…
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