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Pichet et poisson, 1943

Posted by Opera Gallery Singapore

14 May, 2020

Pichet et poisson, 1943

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Georges Braque a model of art and modernism.

Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882, 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. However, he also studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1899. In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in 1902. The following year, he attended the Académie Humbert, also in Paris, and painted there until 1904. It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia they were inspired modernism. His earliest works were impressionistic, but after seeing the work exhibited by the Fauves in 1905, Braque adopted a Fauvist style of art.

He was a prism of the modernism and a landmark in the world of art.

Braque believed that art experienced beauty "... in terms of volume, of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty [he] interpret[s] [his] subjective impression and modernism..."He described "objects shattered into fragments...a way of getting closest to the art object... Although Braque began his career painting landscapes, in 1908, he, alongside Picasso, discovered the advantages of painting still life's instead.

Oil on paper laid down on canvas
19.3 x 24.9 in (49 x 63.2 cm)

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