Braque
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- proper noun
- /brɑːk/
- Greenberg's exclusive concern at the beginning of the text is with the early Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque.
- Georges Braque
- Picasso and Braque
- artist Braque
Examples
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During the last century or so, some painters, having mastered the traditional methods, began to produce pictures that were more or less unrealistic, and some, such as Braque, Motherwell, Archipenko, Miro, and Gorky, abandoned traditional forms altogether and made images we now call abstract.
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The collages of artists like Braque, Picasso, and Schwitters can inspire one to photograph some torn posters on telephone poles, which make good subjects.
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I know who Georges Braque is.
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I remember seeing an exhibition called Braque and Picasso in the early nineties in a museum in Basel.
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By the 1920s, a small number of works by Matisse, Modigliani, Braque, and other artists inspired by art from the continent were represented in the Art Institute's collection.
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Greenberg claims that the paintings effectively recapitulate and clarify the most important achievements of Picasso's and Braque's earlier papiers collés.
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Soon after, they began to acquire works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and others (de Menil 1983:36).
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A local business owner flew to Paris and bought a $5 million Braque painting for his living room.
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In Paris, Picasso and Braque worked simultaneously to develop Cubism.
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From the Anderson Galleries, she purchased a still life of squash by Georges Braque (1882-1963).
Synonyms
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A French painter and sculptor who helped start Cubism with Picasso
Surface Forms
Etymology
Braque is the family name of Georges Braque, a French painter who, with Picasso, helped create Cubism. A helpful way to remember Braque is to think of him as the artist who 'broke' pictures into flat shapes or 'cubes', which is why his name is linked to cubist art.