georges braque. fauvist. co-creator of cubism.

I started out this morning looking for fall pictures done by Henri Matisse. I found myself enraptured by Georges Braque.

How many of you have heard of the fauvism style of painting? If you have, do you agree that it rulz? If not, google it and let me know what you think.

quotes attributed to georges braque:

• Art upsets; science reassures.
• 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.
• Form and colour do not merge,there is simultaneity