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Reflection

This piece reflects human condition by characterizing the unique shapes and movements people and other objects have. Braque saw this by making his piece look so two-dimensional and help us see how unique we really are.

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Femme à la guitare (Woman with Guitar)

Man with a Guitar (Figure, L’homme à la guitare)

The Piece

Title: Violin and a Pitcher

Artist: Georges Braque

Style: cubism

Material: oil on canvas

Where it is now: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Commissioned: no one commissioned this painting

Communication

  • When Georges Braque abandoned a bright Fauve palette and traditional perspective in 1908, it was the inspiration of Paul Cézanne's geometrical compositions that led him to simplified faceted forms, flattened spatial planes, and muted colors.
  • In Violin and a Pitcher, the segmented parts of the violin, the sheets of music, and the artist's palette are vertically arranged, heightening their correspondence to the two-dimensional surface. Ironically, Braque depicted the nail at the top of the canvas in an illusionistic manner, down to the very shadow it cast, thus emphasizing the contrast between traditional and Cubist modes of representation.

Other Pieces

Georges Braque

  • Born on May 13, 1882, died on August 31, 1963.
  • He was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.
  • His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism.
  • He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings 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 next 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.

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