Essays on Braque

Artist: Alfons Maria Mucha

Movement: Art Nouveau Art Nouveau is an art movement from western Europe, which also became popular in the United States in 1880s and was one of the major trends until the First World War. Art Nouveau, which means New Art in French, is a modern art form, but it was inspired by natural world, forms and details of nature. Art Nouveau is often called ‘total’ art style, because it influenced all of the types of art, like architecture, interior design, graphic art and, of course, fashion, clothes, textiles, jewelry and so on (Gontar). Alphonse Mucha is a czech artist, ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

The painting “Harbor in Normandy” was completed by Georges Braque in 1909. Braque used oil to paint the image of a harbor on an oil canvas (Kern 45). The subjects of the painting include boats approaching a harbor guided by the light houses from a distance. This is a landscape painting with a spatial sensation. Braque uses this technique to capture the element of expanse space in the large water body. Braque uses forms of lightly painted forms to fill out the landscape. He also uses light shading to complement the dark colors that represent the sky and the light houses. This shading ...