Copyright shifts format Aug 19, 2008
A hundred years ago, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso began to use collage in their paintings, around the same time that they invented cubism. Photomontage followed. (Globe and Mail)
Sacre Bleu! It's the Louvre Inc.! Aug 5, 2008
He calls the Abu Dhabi project, which is set to open in 2013 and for which the Louvre will receive $900 million for the use of its name and for temporary loans of up to 300 works, a "leap into the unknown." As for contemporary artists, he points out that they've long had a place at the Louvre; both Eugne Delacroix and the Cubist artist Georges Braque painted ceiling panels in the museum, and Loyrette recently commissioned American artist Cy Twombly to do the same. "I'm not inventing or adding... (Time.com)
Le Louvre Inc. Jul 20, 2008
He argues that they've long had a place at the Louvre, noting that both Eug;ne Delacroix and Cubist Georges Braque painted ceiling panels in the museum; Braque's 1953 paintings adorn a 450-year-old carved ceiling in the former royal antechamber. In the same vein, Loyrette has commissioned American Cy Twombly to paint one of the museum's last undecorated ceilings. (Time.com)
The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008
"There were points of contact [in his work] with many of his artist colleagues, even those in Paris. Soutine was not so different from Chagall, Modigliani or Maurice Utrillo."The exhibition also highlights parallels with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso," she added. Buzzing Paris The artist was born to a poor family in what is now Belarus and came to Paris in 1913 at the age of 20. The city was buzzing with young artists in search of new methods to shake up traditional art.Soutine, too, became... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Mortality and the art of epic biography Mar 15, 2008
The first volume covered his early life and emergence as an artist through his rose and blue periods; the second, dating from Les demoiselles d'Avignon and his creation of cubism with Georges Braque. Triumphs like Guernica and much of the sculpture for which he's known, his unmatched late-life productivity, as well as his relationships with Dora Maar, Jacqueline Rocque and Fran. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Familiar perspectives on global warming Mar 6, 2008
It's not a new theme; using old newspapers to make art goes back a century to early Cubist collage artists such as Georges Braque. But too much of this work feels the same, as if it's trash straining to be beautiful or meaningful: Ellen Driscoll's giant sculpture "Revenant," made from plastic bottles; Niizeki Hiromi's "Windows," a curtain made of the plastic windows from business envelopes; several works by Rachel Perry Welty, including "208,896 Loaves," a cylinder of strung-together bread tags;... (Boston Globe)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
"Smoke" serves as a gateway to stellar objects upstairs in the Lazarof Collection, including an ensemble of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, outstanding paintings by Picasso from several phases of his career, and works by Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Louise Nevelson and others. Several members of the art press at the preview likened their encounters with the Lazarof Collection to wandering in MOMA before its 21st century renovation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Charles Sheeler Feb 11, 2008
In Paris, Sheeler was intrigued by the then new Cubist style of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, and it would have a strong influence on his work to come, particularly his contribution to the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show. Sheeler would also be influenced by the modernist artist. (Suite101.com)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
Lazarof and her husband, a veteran composer, amassed their treasure trove of works by 20th century artists, including Matisse, Georges Braque, Joan Miro and Henry Moore, over 25 years of collecting. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- News)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Every Van Gogh Didn't Go Nov 9, 2007
Works by Vincent Van Gogh and Georges Braque were among the paintings that failed to sell, though they had been expected to fetch as much as $35 million and $20 million, respectively ... At Sotheby's, estimates and expectations weren't met to nearly the same degree, with a Paul Gauguin expected to sell for between $40 million and $60 million fetching only $35 million, and works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh and Georges Braque going unsold. (SmartMoney)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
ger and Georges Braque among them, did go to the front, but the experience affected their art only indirectly. In contrast, among British troops it was not painters but poets like Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen whose voices were heard. (International Herald Tribune)
Maywald photos on show in Paris Sep 23, 2007
He also continued taking portraits of painters like Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Georges Braque and Chagall. Furthermore, his work included architecture and interiors and he received friends and personalities in his studio. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The Broad vision of L.A. Aug 26, 2007
Her first significant purchase was a lithograph by Georges Braque. Then she bought a poster by Toulouse-Lautrec. (Los Angeles Times)
Walter Oppenheimer, cofounded fashion house, was art collector Aug 12, 2007
On their frequent business trips to Europe to buy fabric, the Oppenheimers began to collect art by Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modern European masters. "It all started with one little Braque painting that we both fell in love with in Paris," Mr. Oppenheimer once said of the collection. (Boston Globe)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
If that's not enough, the exhibit also includes works anyone familiar with modern art would immediately recognize such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henry Rousseau, and George Seurat. "It quite genuinely is a once in a lifetime opportunity, at least in Vancouver," Thom said in an interview. (Vancouver Sun)
Picasso's angular creation remains cutting edge today Jun 7, 2007
Artist Georges Braque began experimenting with his own ideas of Cubism, breaking up images into three-dimensional geometric shapes. Gertrude Stein, an American expatriate in Paris, and Guillaume Apollinaire would start experimenting with language the way Picasso experimented with image. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Icon hits century mark May 2, 2007
The artist Georges Braque began experimenting with his own ideas of Cubism, breaking up images into three-dimensional geometric shapes. Gertrude Stein, the American expatriate in Paris, and Guillaume Apollinaire would start experimenting with language the way Picasso experimented with image. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Wine And Art Meet At Mouton Estate Mar 19, 2007
"The great Georges Braque, internationally known, said, 'I would like to make a labe 00000972 l, to make a drawing for this man, Philippe Rothschild, who's doing something so interesting and amusing.' and my father, of course, with open arms, said, 'well, of course,'" Rothschild said. "And at the minute Braque had decided, he was such an enormous, you know, brouhaha. everybody came. All of the great painters accepted.". (CBS News)
Thoroughly modern Mondrian for Corcoran (Ann Geracimos and Kevin Chaffee) Mar 16, 2007
Upstairs in rooms reconfigured for the show, guests meandered through gallery after gallery admiring works by Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, among many others. One of the most unusual was the "Frankfurt Kitchen," the first built-in modern kitchen manufactured in mass quantity. (Washington Times, DC)
Mission invisible Mar 15, 2007
This revolution in European art just preceded the first world war: from 1909 onwards, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque took the European conventions of the picture apart, destroying perspective and turning appearances inside-out. Their paintings were nicknamed "cubist" and by 1914 cubism was notorious; its jagged, broken appearance seemed abstract at first glance, though was actually profoundly concerned with representation. (Guardian Unlimited)
Heinz Berggruen, Picasso collector and friend, dies Feb 27, 2007
Berggruen's collection included early pieces such as a 1907 study for the "Demoiselles d'Avignon" and a portrait of Georges Braque of 1909-10. Later pieces included "Seated Nude with Lifted Arms," painted in 1972 months before Picasso's death. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A brush with varied styles leaves an impression Jan 25, 2007
"This series was made at the same time Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque together were inventing the art of collage," Affron said. "This was a moment of conjunction" in Paris. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
The art of the deals Dec 30, 2006
Paul Signac, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Paul C. zanne, Fernand L. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
A public show of a private collection proves a mixed blessing at the MFA Dec 29, 2006
Also historically momentous is a small picture of geometrically simplified trees and houses painted in greens and browns by Georges Braque. Made under the influence of Cezanne and Picasso in 1908, it belongs to that heady moment when Cubism was being born, and though it is small and drably colored, it still vibrates with the feeling of revolutionary discovery. (Boston Globe)
Cartier-Bresson 'Scrapbook' opens in Paris Dec 24, 2006
In the selection, one also finds his famous portraits of French painters like Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pierre Bonnard and writers Paul Claudel, Jean-Paul Sartre and Paul Eluard, which he took for the publishing house Braun and for various magazines of that period, like Regards and famous photo magazine VU, founded by Andre Vogel. There is one image that shows Ratna and him mirrored in a window pane. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Forgeries exhibited in London museum Nov 24, 2006
While his partner in crime, John Myatt, would copy the works of Marc Chagall, Georges Braque and Ben Nicholson, Drewe would create the documentation to pass them off as genuine. A few hours' work could net the pair thousands, Rapley said. (CNN -- World)
If you happen to be in the neighbourhood... Nov 11, 2006
An exhibition having the title "Au Temps des Cubists" should by rights be found in one of the major museums around town and be most likely centred on Pablo Picasso, Fernand Lger and Georges Braque. Instead, "Cubist Days" is in two small spaces at the Galerie Bers, and most of the artist names Ukrainian painter Alexandra Exter, for instance barely rate an asterisk in most art histories. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Banktown USA Jun 28, 2006
While he believes that Charlotte is "emerging as a wonderfully cosmopolitan city," he said, "It doesn't yet have the degree of cultural advantages that a Pittsburgh does." The art galleries are "not as established and large," he noted, though Wachovia is working on a new downtown arts museum that will house works by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque and Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol -- the structure designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. If there is a regret among Pittsburghers now... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Looking at the Louvre Jun 2, 2006
There's a ceiling painting by Georges Braque from the 1950s in the Roman galleries the most contemporary of the ceiling decor. Look around. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Almost the surreal thing May 13, 2006
This was the startling new way of painting, and of seeing, that Picasso had evolved with Georges Braque before the first world war. Breton may not have much understood cubism, but he professed to adore Picasso. (Financial Times)
Art market coup: $95 million Picasso May 5, 2006
Later, an important landscape, "Chemin ? l'Estaque" (A Country Lane at l'Estaque) by Georges Braque dating from 1908 came as a reminder of the crucial role that the artist had in the emergence of Cubism. At $968,000, the quasi-abstract picture was inexpensive. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Restless genius: Pablo Picasso May 4, 2006
In Cubism, Picasso and co-founder Georges Braque created an austere, often depersonalised pictorial style. Strikingly modern and dauntingly ambiguous, it was to become the most influential art movement of the modern age. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
PanAfrica: Picasso And Africa Apr 20, 2006
Picasso along with the French artist Georges Braque (1882-1963) is regarded as one of the founders of cubism, a style in which figures and objects are represented by geometrical forms. All modern artists are said to be influenced by Picasso's work, either directly or indirectly. (allAfrica.com)
Renoir returns to Phillips Apr 20, 2006
Starting with El Greco (Phillips called him the "first impassioned expressionist") and including works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, Phillips' collection is an experience in visual language that engages the senses and excites the spirit. "Luncheon of the Boating Party," however, would become closely associated with the Phillips Collection. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Read more... Apr 19, 2006
The exhibition features 17 woven designs by Lurat, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Fernand Lger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Vassily Kandinsky, Victor Vasarely, Georges Braque and Marc Chagall. "This exhibition is a fusion of new and old - the bold abstract designs of modernism and the ancient techniques of hand-woven tapestry," says BYU Museum of Art Curator Paul Anderson. (PNN Online)
Modern art's big names Jan 27, 2006
The show also contains the work of Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris. Picasso's "Still Life With Sugar Bowl and Fan" is on display in the cubism exhibit as is his painting, "Standing Figure," and his bronze sculpture, "Head of a Woman.". (CNN -- Travel)
Georges Braque emerges from shadows of others Jan 22, 2006
Georges Braque A Life By Alex Danchev ... In 1944, when Pablo Picasso joined the French Communist party, he tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade his collaborator in cubism and longtime friendly rival, Georges Braque, to do likewise. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
Jail for conman with millionaire lifestyle Jan 21, 2006
Her spending spree on her father's behalf culminated in the purchase of three works by Marc Chagall, two by Georges Braque and one by Jean Dufy. The most expensive work, Marc Chagall's La Piste du Cirque, was sold for 530,000. (Guardian Unlimited)
