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Braque, Picasso and early cubism. (Georges Braque; Pablo Picasso) (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
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November 6, 1989|
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Braque, Picasso and Early Cubism
Braque's name sounds like a fusion of brique and bloque, so if there is the deep connection between name and nature entailed by Nomen est Omen, his artistic destiny lay with right-angled polyhedra. As a matter of history, he was clearly the first to paint if not cubes then cubelike forms, and was hence the first Cubist to the degree that his implicit theory of painting ideologizes angular solids as exemplified by the cube. The standing anecdote is that the term came from Matisse, who made up the third member of a jury that rejected ...
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