Where did George Braque live?

Answer 1

Georges Braque was a famous French painter who focused first on Fauve painting and after 1908 especially on early Cubism, together with his friend Pablo Picasso; they worked together for years till 1914.

In the summer of 1911 Braque and Picasso painted landscapes side by side in Céret, in the French Pyrenees, each artist producing paintings which are difficult to distinguish from the other. The influence of the ideas of Cézanne was very present in these early artworks: Cubism was born.

In World War I Georges Braque was severely wounded; when he resumed his artistic career in 1917 he developed a more personal style in Cubism, characterized by brilliant colors, subtle lines and textured surfaces; he painted many still life's. During his recovery he became a close friend of Juan / Jean Gris, also a Cubist artist in Paris. In the period between the wars, Georges Braque exhibited a looser and freer approach to Cubism, intensifying his color use combined with a looser rendering of objects. After 1950 he started to paint landscape again, but then with very simple motifs as a 'plow in the field'. A quote by Braque when he was an older man already, but still painting very intensively:

- The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained. To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would be irreparable harm… …If there is no mystery than there is no 'poetry', the quality I value above all else in art. What do I mean by 'poetry'? It is to a painting what life is to man… … For me it is a matter of harmony, ofrapports, of rhythm and - most important for my own work - of 'metamorphosis.

* artist quotes from 'The Observer', John Richardson, 1 December 1957

Answer 2

For most of his life in Paris, but also on the coast of Normandy.

Answer 3

In 1903 he attended the Académie Humbert in Paris.

Answer 4

Mostly in Paris.