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Georges Braque ( May 13 , 1882 – August 31 , 1963 ) was a French Painter and Sculptor , and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of Cubism . Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine , France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts from about 1897 to 1899 . He studied in Paris under a master decorator and was awarded his certificate of craftmanship in 1901 . The following year he attended the Academie Humbert and painted there until 1904 . It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia . His early work was Impressionistic , but he soon changed to a Fauvist style. He was impressed by the bold style of work exhibited by the Fauves in 1905 . They used brilliant colours and loose structures of forms to capture the most intense emotional response. The Fauves included Henri Matisse and Andre Derain . In 1907 , Braque exhibited works in this style in the Salon Des Indépendants . From 1909 to 1911 , he worked with Picasso to develop Cubism. In 1912 , they began to experiment with Collage and '' Papier Collé ''. Their collaboration continued until 1914 . Braque was injured in the First World War , after which he moved away from the harsher abstraction of cubism, towards the hermetic and synthetic forms — the most abstract forms of cubism. QUOTES BY GEORGES BRAQUE If a painting doesn't disquiet, what is it? A good painting never stops giving of itself. I made a great discovery. I don't believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, except that there is a harmonious relationship among them, and also between them and myself. When one reaches this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual void. This was everything becomes possible, everything becomes legitimate, and life is a perpetual revelation. This is true song. I have found painting to be a means of hanging up my ideas. This enables me to change them and avoid any fixed idea. The painting is complete when the idea is obliterated. EXTERNAL LINKS
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