Georges Braque

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Georges Braque

French artist

Written by Roy Donald McMullen

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Born:: May 13, 1882, Argenteuil, France

Died:: August 31, 1963, Paris (aged 81)

Notable Works:: “Houses at L’Estaque”; “Large Nude”; “Le Duo”; “Man with a Guitar”; “The Painter and His Model”; “Violin and Palette”; “Woman Musician”

Movement / Style:: Analytical Cubism; Cubism; Fauvism; Synthetic Cubism; Der Blaue Reiter; Neue Künstlervereinigung

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Georges Braque (born May 13, 1882, Argenteuil, France—died August 31, 1963, Paris) was a French painter, one of the important revolutionaries of 20th-century art who, together with Pablo Picasso, developed Cubism. His paintings consist primarily of still lifes that are remarkable for their robust construction, low-key colour harmonies, and serene, meditative quality. Braque was born just seven months after Picasso, in a small community on the Seine near Paris that was one of the centres of the Impressionist movement in the 1870s. His father and grandfather, both amateur artists, were the owners of a prosperous house-painting firm. In 1890 the ...(100 of 1727 words)

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