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Of the "GRAND OLD MEN" OF MODERN ART, none has had a more widespread respect and admiration than georges braque, both as an artist and as a man. Although braque was almost from the start of his career, one of the most daring and fruitful painters of the twentieth century, his work is so marked with grace and balance that it is hard to think of him as a "modern" rather than as the present day continuator of all that is best in, and most characteristic of, the French tradition in painting. One of the first of the Fauves, he soon became surfeited with their riotous color and the clamor of their brush strokes. Braque then went on, together with his close friend of those days, Pablo Picasso, to invent Cubism. He was thus the only important Fauve painter who become a thoroughgoing Cubist - one of the two giants of Cubism in all its revolutionary varieties.Since then, Braque's work developed through many stages, reflecting Classical art, grazing Surrealism, employing all sorts of techniques and mediums, and all degrees of recognizability. But, however distorted his art may be, it is never anguished or violent, but, like the man himself, sober, discreet, aristocratic. Jean Cassou, Director of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, in this book writes most sympathetically about his late friend, the artist.
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