Among the ideas that have influenced the last 100 years’ painting, perhaps the most important has been Cubism. The name was attached as an epithet to a group of painters in Paris working within a single idiom about 1910. They subjected the painting to a new form of discipline that was at the same time, a freeing of form and space. It was both a technical and aesthetic innovation. Picasso said that Cubism was the work of a team. The following collection of Georges Braque’s earlier work appeared in the Arts Club of Chicago 1955 retrospective exhibition on Cubism.
Georges Braque, who also sculpted, was born in a suburb of Paris in 1882 and died in the city in 1963. In Braque’s work, “a space for autonomy, a space for human creation, when so much was driven by politics. What Braque, in some ways, is doing is creating space for freedom.”
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Georges Braque 1882-1963 | Tate
Georges Braque ( , French: [ʒɔʁʒ bʁak]; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism.
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