Picasso and Braque were both quite poor in 1907 and Kahnweiler offered to buy their work as they painted them, therefore liberating the artists from distressing about pleasing viewers or getting negative criticisms. Subsequent to the 1908's exhibit, with few exceptions, the two artists exhibited only in Kahnweiler's gallery. The collaboration between Picasso and Braque commencement in 1909 was essential to the genesis of cubism. The two artists met frequently to discuss their evolvement, and at times it became difficult to discriminate between the works of one artist from another. Both lived in the bohemian Montmartre section of Paris years before and during World War I, which made their collaboration easy. Though Picasso and Braque returned to Cubism periodically throughout their careers and there were some exhibitions of their work up until 1925, the two-man movement did not last much beyond World War …show more content…
The Independants was a non-juried exhibition where public reaction depended on how and where paintings were hung. In addition to showing their works in large exhibitions, the Salon Cubists were also different from Picasso and Braque in that they often operated on a great scale, leading one art historian to coin the term 'Epic Cubism' to distinguish their work from the more intimate paintings of Picasso and Braque. While they broke apart objects and bodies into geometric forms like those of Picasso and Braque, the Salon Cubists did not challenge Renaissance conceptions of space to the same extent nor did they embrace the monochromatic color of Analytic Cubism or the collage elements of Synthetic