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1881--1963, French painter; founder of cubism with Picasso.


Braque, Georges

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
French painter. With Picasso, he played a decisive role in the development of cubism (1907–1910). It was during this period that he began to experiment with collage and invented the technique of gluing paper, wood, and other materials to canvas. Braque was the first to exhibit a cubist work, at the Salon des Indépendants in 1908. The idea behind cubism led logically to abstraction, a path that Braque pursued without losing a sense of pictorial beauty. In his many still lifes he shows how from some quite simple object, such as a dish of fruit, a whole set of novel relationships and harmonies can be derived. Still active in his last years, he produced a series of studio interiors which are among the finest of his works in their highly original conception of space. Braque was born in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris. In 1904 he began to study art in Paris and to paint in the Fauve manner, with bright, free colour. He developed an increasingly geometrical style painted with muted colours, and…
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Full text Article Georges Braque (1882–1963)

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Full text Article Georges Braque 1882–1963

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Full text Article TRUTH

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth. ADLER, Alfred Problems of Neurosis (1929). The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. AGAR, Herbert Sebastian A Time for Greatness (1942). …
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Full text Article Fauvism

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The name given to the work of a group of young French artists of the first decade of the 20th century, whose leader was Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and which included André Derain (1880–1954), Georges Braque (1882–1963), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), Albert Marquet…
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Full text Article Fauvism

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The name given to the work of a group of young French artists of the first decade of the 20th century, whose leader was Henri Matisse (1869-1954), and which included André Derain (1880-1954), Georges Braque (1882-1963), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Albert Marquet…
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Full text Article Braque

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Full text Article Cubism

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The style of an early 20th-century school of painters who depicted surfaces, figures, tints, light and shade, and so on, by means of a multiplicity of shapes of a cubical and geometrical character. The name was introduced in 1908 by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, who took up a remark…
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Full text Article Tomb of Georges Braque and his wife, Marcelle (photo)

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Tomb of Georges Braque and his wife, Marcelle (photo)
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