George braque cubism biography of rory

During the inter-war years, Braque established himself as France's leading painter, the inheritor of the national virtues and depository of the classical tradition, which he later defined in his Cahier de Georges Braque: 1917-1947.

Along with this Neoclassicism went the group of works inspired by the art and culture of ancient Greece: the etchings for Hesiod's Theogons (1931), the four remarkable engraved plaster casts (platres graves) on mythological themes, also made in 1931 (Herakles, Aime Maeght Collection, Paris), and most of the sculptures.

George braque cubism biography of rory

In fact, Braque's art after 1920 is notable for its stylistic coherence, most of his output consisting either of relatively small works, or of large, more ambitious works, often elaborated over a long period. There is no evolution in the true sense but rather a succcession of new themes linked each time with a new method of expressing relationships between line and volume, form and colour.

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