13.05.1882 – 31.08.1963

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new trend in painting emerges, based on the construction of a three-dimensional shape, dissected into geometric elements. The paintings turn into flat panels, devoid of perspective and chiaroscuro. One of the founders of Cubism is the artist Georges Braque.

He was born on May 13, 1882, to study painting began early in the School of Fine Arts. In 1900, Marriage arrived in Paris, where he began to attend the Academy of Embra. There, having got acquainted with Dufy and Friiez, he was carried away by Fauvism and achieved significant successes in this direction. All his works, exhibited in the Salon of Independent in 1906, were sold out.

1907 was a landmark in the works of Georges Braque. He visited a large-scale exhibition Cezanne and met with Picasso and his Avignon girls. So in his work and in the work of Picasso, the “Cezanne” period of cubism began, in which color plays a significant role, increasing the volume. Further, their search led to the birth of the next stage – analytical cubism. The habitual images of objects were destroyed into separate spatial structures, the volumes disappeared, turning into a freakish ornament of sharp angles and curved accents. In 1912, Marriage began to introduce into the paintings alphabetic stencils, stickers, mix paints with sand, wood and iron filings, add paper applications, create collages. This style was called “synthetic cubism.”

With the outbreak of World War I, Marriage was drafted to the front, where he was seriously wounded in 1915, he could return to painting only two years later. Between wars he writes neoclassical things, decorative, in which, nevertheless, you can see the severe school of cubism.

Georges Braque died at the age of 81 in Paris. And his works, which have become a kind of artistic symbol of the XX century, now occupy a worthy place in the world’s largest museums, including the Paris National Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center.