SHARING WITH ME

I would think that if someone mentioned the name Braque, most people would immediately associate him with Cubism - and Picasso. The paintings that come to mind at once for me are these….. MAISONS ET ARBRE 1908 PAYSAGE DE CARRIRERE SAINT DENIS 1909 LES USINES DE RIO-TINO A L'ESTAQUE 1910 NATURE MORTE AU  VIOLIN 191 Braque is infinitely more. Perhaps not as rich as Picasso by any manner of means but there are distinct periods. Some I like very much, others less so. To begin with, George Braque  (1882-1963) is a member of the Fauve group which he discovers at the Salon d’automne in 1905. For quite a while and at L’Estaque in the south of France, he paints enthusiastically and with lots of energy. It’s definitely Fauve for me and a discovery some years ago in Grenoble when I had seen « Die Brucke ». I’m not over keen on his landscapes but there is a nude which breaks away from the other painters in that group and has a character of it’s own. NU ASSIS 1