Georges Braque was a Frenchman born in 1882, along with his best friend and fellow artist, Pablo Picasso, he was one of the founders of the artistic style, Cubism.
As he was growing up in the town of Le Havre, he learned the trade of his father, which was decorating and painting houses. However, he also took evening classes at the local 'École des Beaux-Arts'. His work was initially very similar to that of his Impressionist predecessors, but after viewing some of the work of the Fauvists (Matisse, Derain, etc...), he was thoroughly converted to this style, adopting bright colours to represent the emotions inside of him. He worked in close contact with Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, who were from the same town as him, this entourage led him to produce a more subdued response to Fauvism. After going to Paris with Friesz and seeing the work of Cézanne and the Parisian Avant-gardism, his work evolved enormously and the joining together of all these styles resulted in a style resembling Cubism. At the beginning of the 19th century, Braque met Picasso and the two became friends and started working together. Whilst Picasso was interested in translating a tribal influence into his work, Braque focused more on the idea of introducing multiple perspectives into his pictures, this was an idea from Cézanne. It is the joint effort of Braque and Picasso, that we now consider to be Cubism. This name refers to the geometry of their painting style. Braque died in 1963 and is now viewed as one of the pioneers of modern art.
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