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Still Life

THESE DRAWINGS REVEAL t w o o p p o s i t e m o t i v a t i o n s i n we can. still feel this projected moment. Opposite, Mucha's
representing still life. Below, Braques image is a Cubist drawing glistens with possession, not of place but of things;
collage. One of the great joys of this movement in art is the perfect i n their newly made availability. There is a fragile
musicality of its multipoint view. Braques "justly" arranged eloquence to these objects as they drift in slow motion past
combination of cut black card, wood-look wallpaper, our gaze. T h i s is a designers drawing made to enthuse
charcoal, and a journal jacket with words makes this drawing surface and style in its delicate brushing of china, silverware,
chatter about the moment. He takes us into the bustle of the and glass objects of exquisite elegance for only the gentlest
Paris cafe, steaming with music and conversation. Even today of touch and appreciation.

GEORGES BRAQUE Clashes The art historian Ernst Gombrich said of Cubism, La Cuitare, Statue D'Epouvante
"I believe [it] is the most radicalattempttostampout
French painter who as a young man was influenced ambiguity and to enforce one readingofthepicture—that 1913
by the work of the Fauves and of Cezanne. Braque of a manmade construction, a colored canvas. ...Braque
established Cubism in partnership with Picasso just marshals all the forces of perspective, texture, and shading, 2 f t 5 in x 3 ft 5 in (0.73 x 1 m)
before World War I. His work is characterized by not to work in harmony, but to clash in virtual deadlock."
calm and harmonious still-life compositions. GEORGES BRAQUE