This still life is executed using the techniques of Cubism, boldly simplifying forms such as sheet music, a mandolin and fruit in vivid color alongside fragmented shadows from a water jug. He also experimented with surface texture by mixing sand into the paint and cutting linear marks into the layers of paint before they dried, creating a rich variety of tactile effects. Born in France, Braque was initially drawn to Fauvist painting. In 1907, after encountering Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, he joined Picasso in pursuing Cubism, a mode of artistic practice based on the analysis and reconstruction of objects.
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This still life is executed using the techniques of Cubism, boldly simplifying forms such as sheet music, a mandolin and fruit in vivid color alongside fragmented shadows from a water jug. He also experimented with surface texture by mixing sand into the paint and cutting linear marks into the layers of paint before they dried, creating a rich variety of tactile effects.
Born in France, Braque was initially drawn to Fauvist painting. In 1907, after encountering Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, he joined Picasso in pursuing Cubism, a mode of artistic practice based on the analysis and reconstruction of objects.