famous french painter, sculptor, collagist
Initially followed style of Impressionism and Fauvism. The Fauves such as Henri Matisse & Andre Derain used brilliant (or wild) colour palettes to express emotions thus being dubbed as wild beasts.
Braque is most famous for having developed "Cubism" with Pablo Picasso
Cubist paintings display geometricity, effects of light and simultaneous/multiple perspective.
In cubist paintings the forms seem to comprise of many broken up cubes, earning the term "bizarre cubes". Later cubist work were made by collage technique
1909-10, La guitare (Mandora, La Mandore), oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, Tate Modern, London
1913, Nature morte (Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs), oil, gouache and charcoal on canvas, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
