3 Kirkgate Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 1PA
tel: 01765 602878 email: thegallery@hornseys.com
www.hornseys.com

art_20th century_artists_
georges braque

Born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, he grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a domestic painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. In the evenings though he attended the École de Beaux Arts in Le Havre studying painting.  His early work was impressionistic, however he was impressed by the bold style of the Fauve movement exhibited in 1905 and soon adapted to a fauvist style. This utilised brilliant colours and loose structures in order to capture the most intense emotional response. Braque worked closely with Dufy developing a more subdued Fauvist style and in 1907 he successfully exhibited with the fauves at the Salon des Indépendants. Following this his style began a slow evolution influenced greatly by the work of Cézanne, who had died in 1906, and his work was being exhibited extensively throughout Paris. Braque’s work began to take on a geometric style illustrating simultaneously numerous perspectives. Beginning in 1909, Braque alongside Picasso developed a new style known as Cubism. They experimented with the notion of deconstructing and fragmentation objects, illustration a 3-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional canvas observing all sides concurrently.  They began to experiment with collage and lithography and their collaboration continued until 1914 when Braque left Paris to fight in the First World War. After the War Braque’s style moved away from the harsher abstraction of Cubism, towards a more artificial, synthetic abstract from of Cubism.

Back to artists

thumbnails_click

La mandoline La patience Le poele Le gueridon rouge