Ok, so this is my first time doing anything of this sort. Usually I prefer painting and creating over this journaling stuff, but I figure it’s sometimes necessary and this will be a good way for all my fans to get a better insight into my work and process. This first entry will be a quick overview of my life, and later I’ll go into more specific detail about my works.
Anyway, my name is Georges Braque. I’m a French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor.* I was born in 1882 on May 13th, and entered into art school in 1897. One of my biggest (early) inspirations is Vincent van Gogh. I kind of hit it big in 1908, shortly after I met Pablo Picasso. We became pretty good friends, except for when Picasso was being an attention whore. We still get along ok, but we haven’t talked in a while. I’m busy with my work, and he with his.
Picasso and I kind of started our own art movement. Well, I like to think that I started the movement and Picasso just helped develop it a little, but he always gets all the credit. The movement we started, though, is called Cubism. My first real cubist painting (or rather, my most famous one) is called Houses at L’Estaque. The Salon d’Automne rudely rejected my work, though luckily the Galerie Kahnweiler saw the beauty in the landscape. Louis Vauxcelles’ review of the show called me a ‘painter of cubes’, which is how Cubism got its name.
This is where I’ll leave you today, my dear readers (if you’re out there). On the next post I’ll go into more detail about the growth of cubism and life as World War I approached.
*Kachur, Lewis. Braque, Georges (1882-1963), painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker. London: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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