Georges Braque Biography and Major Works: Life and Early Movements
Georges Braque Biography and Major Works: Life and Early Movements
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Georges Braque was a prominent French artist who was part of the key avant-garde movements at the beginning of the 20th century . Partnering with Picasso in cubism, although his cubist works are less known, Braque had a long career in painting that continued far beyond that period.
BIOGRAPHY
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, France on 13 May 1882. He grew up in the city of Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather.
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Between 1897 and 1899, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in the same city.
In 1902, living in Paris, he learned from a decorator and obtained a certificate. The following year, he attended the Académie Humbert, and there he painted until 1904. It was during this period that he met the painters Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
His early works were impressionists, but after seeing the work exhibited by the fauvists in 1905, he began to adopt that style.
In May 1907, he successfully exhibited fauvist works at the Salon des Indépendants. The same year, he met Pablo Picasso, when Braque's style began to evolve slowly, under strong influence from Paul Cézanne, who had died in 1906, and whose works were exhibited in Paris for the first time in a retrospective in his honor.
But history holds a peculiar detail: Between 1908 and 1913, his paintings began to reflect his new interest in geometry and perspective simultaneously.
A decisive moment in his development in the creation of cubism occurred during the summer of 1911, when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso painted side by side in the French Pyrenees, each artist producing complex - sometimes almost impossible - paintings to distinguish from each other.
The invention of cubism was a joint effort between Picasso and Braque, at the time when they lived in Montmartre, Paris. Braque and Picasso, in particular, began to work on the development of cubism in 1908.
In the 1920s, as a result of his dedication to depicting space in various ways, he naturally gravitated towards drawing sets and costumes for theater and ballet performances, doing so throughout.
In 1944, when the Second World War ended, Braque began to embrace lighter themes such as flowers, billiard tables, and garden chairs.
In 1948, Braque began to paint birds repeatedly, as the perfect symbol of his obsession with space and movement.
Georges Braque passed away on 31 August 1963 in Paris. He was buried in the cemetery of the Church in Saint-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.
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