BIOGRAFIA:
Georges
Braque (1882 - 1963)
Pintor francés
Nació
el 13 de mayo de 1882 en Argenteuil-sur-Seine, cerca de París.
Cursó estudios en la Escuela de Bellas Artes y cerca
de 1905 comienza a pintar al modo de los fauvistas. En 1908
su interés se centra en las obras de Paul Cézanne.
Mantenía una gran relación con Picasso, con quien
empezó a trabajar en estrecha colaboración a partir
de 1909 realizando obras estructuradas en complejas formas geométricas
y pintadas con colores neutros, que hoy son conocidas como cubismo
analítico. En 1914 se alistó en el ejército
francés y fue herido de gravedad durante la I Guerra
Mundial. En 1917 reanudó su carrera artística
en solitario desarrollando un estilo más personal, que
se caracteriza por los colores brillantes y la textura de las
superficies y, después de su traslado a Normandía,
por la reaparición de la figura humana. Falleció
el 31 de agosto de 1963 en París.
French
painter, who, with Pablo Picasso, originated cubism and the
cubist style, to become one of the major figures of 20th-century
art.
Braque was born May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, near
Paris; he grew up there and in the port city of Le Havre. In
1899, following in his father's occupation, he apprenticed himself
as a house painter. By 1902, however, he had settled in Paris
to pursue the study of painting as a fine art; he was deeply
impressed by the bold style of works exhibited in 1905 by the
Fauves (French for the wild beasts). The Fauves included Henri
Matisse and Andre Derain, who painted with brilliant colors
and a loose structure of forms to capture the most intense emotional
response. Braque adopted Fauvism from 1906 to 1907.
By 1908, however, Braque had shifted his attention to the paintings
of Paul Cezanne, who was reputed to have restored order and
discipline to the extremes of artistic expression. Braque's
interest in Cézanne's strangely distorted forms and unconventional
perspective led him to paint in the manner that came to be called
cubist. In his works of 1908 to 1913 Braque conducted an intense
study of the effects of light and perspective and the technical
means that painters use to represent these effects. He seemed
to question most standard artistic conventions. In his village
scenes, for example, Braque frequently reduced an architectural
structure to a geometric form approximating a cube—or,
more precisely, a rectangular prism—yet rendered its shading
so that its volume seemed to be contradicted—that is,
it looked both flat and three-dimensional. In this way Braque
called attention to the very nature of visual illusion and artistic
representation.
Picasso, with whom Braque began to work closely in 1909, had
been developing a similar approach to painting. Both artists
produced paintings of neutralized color and complex patterns
of faceted form, now called analytic cubism, in about 1910 to
1912, as demonstrated in Braque's Violin and Pitcher. Both also
began to experiment with collage, a technique of constructing
an image from the materials of everyday life—newspapers,
labels, pieces of fabric. The fertile collaboration of Braque
and Picasso continued until Braque enlisted in the French army
in 1914; he was severely wounded in World War I (1914-1918)
and resumed his artistic career alone in 1917.
After the war, Braque developed a more personal style, characterized
by brilliant color and textured surfaces and, following his
move to the Normandy seacoast, the reappearance of the human
figure. He painted many still lifes during this time, maintaining
his emphasis on structure. He continued to work throughout his
life, producing a considerable number of distinguished paintings,
graphics, and sculptures, all imbued with a pervasive contemplative
quality. He died August 31, 1963, in Paris.
fuente
buscabiografias.com
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Braque.html
