Georges Braque

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were the artists behind the Cubist art movement. In his younger years, Braque worked as an apprentice in a decorator's studio where he learned the tricks of the trade. He studied at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris but was more content to work on his own with little direction. He moved from fauvism to cubism after spotting some of Picasso's work which appealed to him tremendously. Braque and Picasso succeeded in their attempts to create a revolutionary new art form. They let the art world know and see that several points of view of an object could be viewed at one time. In addition, they put forward the idea of spatial reconstruction and they expressed perfectly the idea that even though depth could be "faked", painting is in fact a 2-dimensional art form.

Georges Braque Images:
Deux Oiseaux
Gueridon, 1929