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“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”

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Georges Braque, born on May 13, 1882, and died on August 31, 1963, was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. He co-founded the Cubist art movement with Picasso. Braque's paintings are known for their unique geometric shapes and color usage, which have had a profound impact on modern art. more

“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

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“If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.”

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“Evidence exhausts the truth.”

Evidence Exhaustion

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