Braque

 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 and a nude by Braque of late 1907 would become known as the first cubist paintings. Both artists were inspired by Cezanne’…

…one another. These planes and forms change from one into the other and move from background to foreground and vice versa making a two dimensional image from what, when looked at individually is made up of three dimensional forms and planes. Cogniat, Raymond, Braque, Crown Publishers, 1978 Gallatin, A. E., Georges Braque: Essay and Bibliography, Wittenborn and Co. 1943 Golding, John, Cubism, Harvard University Press, 1988 Hilton, Timothy Picasso, Thames and Hudson, 1975 Fry, Edward, Cubism, Oxford University Press 1980