Georges Braque was one of the fathers of Cubism. Along with Picasso he explored and invented a new way of painting that got its name from critics who pointed out small cubes in his earliest cubist works. At the end of 1907, Braque met Picasso at the unveiling of The Ladies of Avignon. This piece ...

~Part 1~ Cubism and Fauvism were one of the most influential modern arts of the 20th century. Cubism was developed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. Picasso and Braque found examples and initial concepts of cubism in two art sources. ...

Towards the end of the nineteenth-century changes in the temperament of the social structure, and economic character of Europe caused artists to abandon previously held art-making conventions and instead seek to interpret the world in new and revolutionary means. 'More of an attitude than a specifi...