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everybody in Paris is influenced a great deal from the era GEORGE BRAQUE
of the impressionists.
It is the reason that Paris can claim that they are the Braque is best known for his Cubist works which he created in
centre of the art world and it is one of the reasons that collaboration with fellow artist Pablo Picasso. Braque’s work was
artists from all over the world want to experience painting highly influential in the development of modern art and helped
and being there. The left bank of the Seine, Montmartre, define the new visual language of the early 20th century.
it is all there. Lautrec was painting by day and carousing “I have introduced Braque’s image in a stylized cubistic style,
by night, sketch pad in hand, he had a short, wildlife and similar to his style of cubism. The backdrop continues as an
fortunately he had the money to support his vices. example of his usage of vertical and horizontal structure
He had many subjects, the dancers, the ladies of the and sharp angles. During the wartime period, the work he
night, very colorful, very adventurous, exciting and most put together would change in order to represent the somber,
important he was a VIP at the Moulin Rouge. A nightlife- dark period the world was going through and these are the
loving aristocrat, absinthe-soaked, bohemian 19th century colors I have used here. After reading about Picasso and
Paris. It is the City of Art, home to some of the world’s hearing about the other artists that would not let him in their
most famous museums and galleries including the Louvre studios, knowing he would steal their ideas, I imagine Braque
and the Musee d’Orsay, the city today remains home to a as being the inventor of Cubism as I can’t imagine Braque
thriving community of artists.” copying Picasso.”
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