Perhaps it is the artist’s own room? Painting tools such as an easel, canvas, and palette are arranged with other objects. Along with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque experimented in the early 20th century with cubism, combining multiple perspectives in his paintings. This work, which was made about 20 years later, exhibits a milder style, but the difference in perspective between the table and the vase, for example, shows that his cubist methodology is still alive and well.
Meanwhile, the palette on the table is made to resemble a skull in a process Braque referred to as “metamorphosis.” It perhaps provides a glimpse into the artist’s feeling of unease on the eve of World War II.
(MATSUNAGA Shintaro)
Perhaps it is the artist’s own room? Painting tools such as an easel, canvas, and palette are arranged with other objects. Along with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque experimented in the early 20th century with cubism, combining multiple perspectives in his paintings. This work, which was made about 20 years later, exhibits a milder style, but the difference in perspective between the table and the vase, for example, shows that his cubist methodology is still alive and well.
Meanwhile, the palette on the table is made to resemble a skull in a process Braque referred to as “metamorphosis.” It perhaps provides a glimpse into the artist’s feeling of unease on the eve of World War II.
(MATSUNAGA Shintaro)