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The name given to a type of semi-abstract painting and collage developed by Picasso and Braque in Paris before the First World War. To some extent basing their work on the achievements of Cezanne the two artists moved away from the traditional rea...

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Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) was born at Argenteuil, and moved to Paris in 1900. He was impressed by the works of the Fauve painters, including Matisse, and in 1907 the Cezanne Memorial Exhibition influenced him greatly.Shortly afterwards he met P...

The abstract qualities in art are those which are independent of a work's resemblance to external reality. The arrangement of lines, forms, tone and colour, even in a painting depicting an aspect of the known world, can be viewed as a series of no...

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

1881 - 1973