Georges Braque - Artist Analysis

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism. From a young age, Braque was gaining experience in painting and art as he was being trained in the family business as a house painter in , like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting in his free time.

This is one of Braque's pieces that I have been interested in as it includes a guitar.  The guitar stands out from the rest of the piece with it's size and less angular, squared shape. The cubism style contrasts greatly to my other artist's styles of production and I think that these contrasts would be able to come together so I can merge the two styles quite nicely.

Cubism involves drawing an object from multiple angles all in one picture, in this picture in particular, the guitar has a sense of freedom and has been fractured from reality into this abstract masterpiece. Braque saw that pictures were only two dimensional and his cubist pieces show that he expressed the different dimensions of the objects he was painting with the various angles he painted them all at.

This is another piece by Braque which includes a guitar. This one uses more vibrant colours than the previous piece, which makes the guitar stand out form the rest of the objects, so much so that the rest of the objects seem to be in the background with just the guitar in the foreground. The highly contrasting colours on the guitar are also very eye-catching compared to the rest of the piece which has very earthy tones like the previous example instead of the bright yellow and deep blue colours of this object.