Georges Braque

1882 (Argenteuil) / 1963 (Paris)

Even before his meeting with Picasso, when Braque abruptly adopted Fauvism between 1906 and 1907, at the instigation of the Le Havre artist Othon Friesz, it was because, he said, "not liking Romanticism, this physical painting appealed to me". Physical: that says it all. Far from being the slow, serious, thoughtful - not to say laborious and boring - character of the legend, in contrast to the quick-witted, inventive and mischievous Picasso, Georges Braque was, on the contrary, instinctive, stubborn and nervous. In contrast to Picasso's Latin verbal facundity, he has simply kept the attitude of a "silent man" from his childhood in the Cauchoise region, limiting his thoughts to a few aphorisms (which he was wrong to publish, as these few sentences on "the rule that corrects emotion" earned him the wrath of Breton). A born fighter, Braque - for whom "a painting is finished when the idea has disappeared" - prepared the shots he had in mind, producing five paintings when Picasso, always in a hurry, dropped thirty. When talent is called upon," summed up the Norman, "it is because imagination is lacking. The builder - the boss, said Paulhan - is Braque.



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Georges Braque et le paysage De l’Estaque à Varengeville 1906-1963


Ouvrage collectif Éditions Hazan/Musée Cantini A priori, le sujet majeur de l’oeuvre de Braque n’est pas le paysage. Ce “père de la modernité” est plus connu pour sa participation à la révolution que fut le cubisme. Néanmoins, à y regarder de plus près, le paysage est un élément qui perdure dans son oeuvre et qui se révèle être un fabuleux terrain de recherches et d’ ...

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