Wednesday, June 29, 2022

MMA - Georges Braque

This summer a tutoring client and I are going through the Magnificent Modern Art course from Art History Kids together. It's been really interesting so far. Art History isn't something I ever really learned about, so it's new to me. And so, of course, I'm going to keep some notes here as we go along!

Last week it was Fauvism and the artist Henri Matisse.

This week we are studying


Georges Braque
Cubism (1907 - 1922)

sample artwork from the art movement

    Juan Gris
    Still Life Before an Open Window
    1915

    Pablo Picasso
    Portrait of Dora Maar
    1937

    Robert de la Fresnaye
    Conquest of the Air
    1913


since, in her video, Lotus mentions that Braque first visited Picasso to view a specific piece of artwork, it would be good to show it:


sample artwork from this artist

    Woman with Guitar
    1913

    Studio with Skull
    1938

    The Chair
    1948

    The Birds
    1953

    Little Harbor in Normandy
    1909

    Fruit Dish and Glass
    1912

    Woman Seated at an Easel
    1936


focus piece of art from this artist

    Violin and Sheet Music
    1913


element & principle of art and design

    LINE


other notes (my suggestions)

    look at images from Picasso wall calendar

    watch the March 26, 1989 Barn Dance episode of Reading Rainbow before doing video 3 (focus on painting) to see a violin being made

    today Zac and I just happened to go to the University Museum at SIU and we saw a piece of art by DJ Kennedy which Zac said reminded him of Violin and Sheet Music! it was titled Belleville Big Band

    it would be fun to compare and contrast the two

    more interesting background reading:
    Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist Musicians

    it is not known who invented collage, Georges Braque or Pablo Picasso!

    Pablo Picasso and Collage website with information, art & videos
    Weiner Elementary School

    Fruit Dish and Glass | Georges Braque
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    I found a book that we can cut up which shows a head from many different perspectives (I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara Garriel) so it will be perfect to use in a Cubist collage project

    "In the spring of 1907, Georges Braque visited the studio of Pablo Picasso to view Picasso's notorious work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). Impressed with what he saw, Braque quickly befriended Picasso. In the years that followed (1907-1914), Picasso and Braque were essentially inseparable."

    "Picasso and Braque forged a relationship that was part intimate friendship, part rivalry, and part two-man excursion into the unknown. The two artists were constantly in each other's studio, scrutinizing each other's work while challenging, motivating, and encouraging each other."

    I couldn't figure out why Braque isn't included in the "Friends and Influences from Picasso's Life" section of Picasso and Minou, but I think it must be because this book ends with the very beginning of Cubism. It focuses more on Picasso's Blue Period and Pink Period.


    Picasso and Minou
    by P.I. Maltbie


    Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail
    by Laurence Anholt


and more...


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