Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Paintings Of Georges Braque

By Darren Hartley


Georges Braque paintings began developing a Cubist style after Georges met Pablo Picasso although Georges started out as a member of the Fauves. Georges' and Pablo's paintings shared many similarities in palette, style and subject matter. Georges was also often dedicated to quiet periods spent in his studio as opposed to being a personality in the art world.

Georges stencilled letters onto his forefronting Georges Braque paintings. He also blended pigments with sand as well as copied wood grain and marble. All these he did for the achievement of dimension in his paintings. His still life depiction is so abstract. It actually borders on becoming patterns of expression of an essence in the object views instead of direct representations.

At age seventeen, Georges moved from Argenteuil to Paris in 1899, accompanied by his friends, Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy. The earliest Georges Braque paintings were made in the Fauvist style. After giving up his work as a decorator in his father's decorative painting business, Georges pursued painting full time from 1902 to 1905.

Despite breaking up with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque paintings continued to be influenced by Pablo's works, particularly in relation to papier colles, a collage technique they pioneered together using only pasted paper.

Georges Braque paintings returned to focus on still life, by 1918, when Georges felt he had sufficiently explored the possibilities offered by the papier colles technique. A more limited palette was noticeable in Georges' first post war solo show in 1919. Regardless of this, Georges steadfastly adhered to Cubist rules in his depiction of objects from multi-faceted perspectives in geometrically patterned ways.

As a result of Georges' dedication to depicting space in various ways, other than his Georges Braque paintings, he naturally gravitated to designing sets and costumes for theatre and ballet performances throughout the 1920s. Georges took up landscape painting again in 1929, this time using new, bright colors influenced by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.




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