DANGEROUS MINDS| Lovely article from our Will on Braques and the origins of CUBISM!

 

The art movement that began as an insult in 1908

Will Howard

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Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life 1928-1945

In the early 20th century, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso invented Cubism and shook the foundations of Western art. But in the 1930s, as the rise of fascism brought new urgency to questions of aesthetics and politics, Braque's fractured still lifes and bourgeois interiors remained emphatically inward-looking. Yet Braque's painting was not as separate from outside events as Braque might have it, argues Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, the first major U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to the artist in 16 years. https://source.wustl.edu/2012/11/geor...