Georges Braque Biography

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NAME: Georges Braque
OCCUPATION: Painter
BIRTH DATE: May 13, 1882
DEATH DATE: August 31, 1963
EDUCATION: Ecole des Beaux-Arts

PLACE OF BIRTH: Argentuil
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

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Georges Braque, the French painter who invented Cubism, with Pablo Picasso, and became the first living artist to be exhibited at The Louvre in 1961.

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Georges Braque, the French painter who invented Cubism, with Pablo Picasso, and became the first living artist to be exhibited at The Louvre in 1961. Along with Cubism, Braque utilized the styles of impressionism, Fauvism, collage, and even stage designs for Ballet Russes.

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Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

– Georges Braque

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

– Georges Braque

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(born May 13, 1882, Argenteuil, France—died Aug. 31, 1963, Paris) French painter. He studied painting in Le Havre, then in Paris at a private academy and briefly at the cole des Beaux-Arts. Though his earliest works were influenced by Impressionism, his first important paintings (1905–07) were in the style of Fauvism pioneered by André Derain and Henri Matisse; in 1907 he exhibited and sold six of these paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. Abandoning Fauvism in 1907, he invented with Pablo Picasso the revolutionary new style known as Cubism. He painted mostly still lifes featuring geometric shapes and low-key colour harmonies. In 1912 he introduced the collage, or papier collé (pasted-paper picture), by attaching three pieces of wallpaper to the drawing Fruit Dish and Glass. By the 1920s he was a prosperous, well-established modern master. In 1923 and 1925 he designed stage sets for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He enjoyed a long and prestigious career; in his later years he was honoured with important exhibitions throughout the world. In 1961 he became the first living artist to have his works exhibited in the Louvre.