French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
He co-invented Cubism alongside Picasso in a partnership so tight their canvases were indistinguishable for years — then watched his name slip into the quieter half of art history.
Georges Braque was born 13 May 1882 in France and trained as a painter who first aligned with Fauvism in 1905. Between 1908 and 1912 he worked in near-total creative lockstep with Pablo Picasso, the two men together shattering perspective and reassembling it as Cubism, their paintings so alike that even experts struggled to tell them apart. Braque was also a collagist, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor across a long career. But his quieter temperament meant Picasso's fame and notoriety steadily pulled focus, leaving Braque's name partly eclipsed despite equal authorship of the revolution.…
Sourced, dated quotes from Georges Braque
You see, I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them or between them and myself.
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Trouillebert's work bears a likeness to that of Corot, but they have nothing in common.
It is the limitation of means that determine style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
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