G. Braque (Classic Reprint)

By John Richardson

Excerpt from G. Braque

In certain last outposts of academic resistance this equation of distance with enchantment still persists. But in France the reaction against it began just over a hundred years ago, when Courbet painted landscapes in which nature is rendered in all its density and earthiness, and not as if it were as flimsy, picturesque and remote as stage scenery. Then came C zanne who dispensed with most of the traditional aids to recession, especially in his late works which are based on a new kind of colouristic perspective. But Ce'zanne did not set himself up as a theorist and did not apply his ideas scientifically nor even try to follow them to their logical conclusions. No more is Braque a theorist: on the contrary, he has the greatest mistrust of intellectual formulae and always relies on instinct and intuition. However, quite early in his career, he perceived the full implications of C zanne's discoveries; at the same time, he saw the downright dishonesty of the tricks by which Renaissance and post-renaissance artists achieved their illusory effects of distance. By the same token he saw that it was a} lie to try to represent three dimensions in terms of two.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026659171X
• ISBN13: 9780266591719
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"