The end of the s saw another style change as Braque began painting more realistic interpretations of nature, though he never strayed far from Cubism, as there were always aspects of it in his works.
Braque started to engrave plaster in , and his first significant show took place two years later at the Kunsthalle Basel. He gained international fame, winning first prize in at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. After the war, he painted lighter subjects of birds, landscapes and the sea. Braque also created lithographs, sculptures and stained-glass windows.
They married in and lived in the small town of Sorgues in southeastern France. It took him two years to fully recover. In his elder years, his failing health prevented him from taking on large-scale commissioned projects. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
When he was about 15 years old, he took night classes to study art painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. He went to Academie Humbert the following year and stayed there to paint for almost two years. They were both followers of Cubism. When he saw the works exhibited by the Fauves in , which mainly emphasized strong colors over the representational values retained by impressionism, he adopted their Fauvist style.
Henri Matisse and Andre Derain spearheaded the Fauvism movement but it only lasted for a few years. These painters portrayed their emotions through the use of brilliant colors. Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy were some of the painters who worked with Braque to develop a Fauvist style but more subdued.
He was successful in exhibiting his Fauve works at the Salon des Independants in May In that same year, his painting style evolved slowly due to the influence of Paul Cezanne, a painter who died by He studied lighting effects extensively until he was able to reduce architectural structures to geometric figures. He approximated cubes and rendered proper shadings to achieve flat and dimensional looks. He showed visual illusion and artistic representation in this piece.
In , he started to work side by side with the famous Pablo Picasso, who was also interested in a similar painting style. Both painters were influenced by Cezanne. He celebrated contemplation while Picasso celebrated animation. It was said that Cubism resulted from the joint efforts of both artists. They began working on its development in Both of them produced various paintings with complex patterns of faceted forms with the use of monochromatic color.
Today, that particular style of painting is known as Analytic Cubism. In the summer of , Braque and Picasso painted side by side in Ceret. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
His earliest works were impressionistic, but after seeing the work exhibited by the Fauves in , Braque adopted a Fauvist style. Braque worked most closely with the artists Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, who shared Braque's hometown of Le Havre, to develop a somewhat more subdued Fauvist style. He conducted an intense study of the effects of light and perspective and the technical means that painters use to represent these effects, appearing to question the most standard of artistic conventions.
In his village scenes, for example, Braque frequently reduced an architectural structure to a geometric form approximating a cube, yet rendered its shading so that it looked both flat and three-dimensional by fragmenting the image.
He showed this in the oil painting "House at L'estaque".
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