Who Is Georges Braque's Still Life With Violin

Why did Georges Braque make his artwork Still Life with Violin,1913 with a new touch to still life? To begin, the painting by Braque was made in a new Modern movement called Cubism. The Modern movement, Cubism, was formed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907. They made Cubism as a new way of portraying multiple dimensions and perspectives of an object or subject onto a two-dimensional canvas. In Braque’s painting, Still Life with Violin, the artwork is made by oil on canvas and has the measurements of 36 1/2 x 26 in (92.71 x 66 cm). The artwork shows how the material in the painting creates a sense of unity with everything fitting in place geometrically. The way Braque had designed this artwork makes the
Braque intentionally chose the colors to portray the various objects and make them stand out at the viewer. Also, Braque and Picasso wanted to simplify natural forms and make them geometric, which is also shown in the painting. Furthermore, there were two styles of Cubism, which were Analytical and Synthetic Cubism. Braque used both styles in his artwork which explains the many personalities of the painting. Analytical Cubism is used to show the different geometric shapes and Synthetic Cubism is used to show the collage style of signs and snippets of real things. The collage style seemed to be displaying parts of Braque’s everyday life. The painting also shows what seems to be a piece of wood, which is actually just an illusion. Additionally, Braque, uses the illusion of wood which in French is called “Faux bois” which means “false wood” to show a piece of wood. Braque had made the lines on the replica wood piece very similar to a real wood piece. The wood piece in the painting has a texture that seems as if there is a real piece of wood
He seems to be showing small fragments of his daily life and things he might have read, cafe shops, and so on. The painting is made in an oval shape with these signs and words inside. The artwork shows parts of a violin which you can see the S holes of the violin. Also on the top left of the oval there are horizontal lines which seem to be music sheets. The painting shows how the artist uses this new kind of still life to show parts of his life. Additionally, the artist also puts in on the right side of the oval a few words in typography saying DUO POUR which means “duet por”. The artwork show these geometric shapes and many part Braque’s daily life. Basically what Braque and Picasso had started was a new style of collage which was “a technique of constructing an image from the materials of everyday life—newspapers, labels, pieces of fabric”(Funk and Wagnalls). What Funk and Wagnalls is trying to say here is that these artists were experimenting with the collages and adding their own twist to them. With the items added to the collages came together what was a new form of still life. Braque’s painting, Still Life with Violin, is a perfect example of the experiments of collages during this time and how he integrated this new style of collage into a still life. Also the viewer is shown a new form of still life, a cubist view with Braque’s daily life shown in the artwork. The