8 mars 1910 - Violin and Candlestick by Georges Braque

Description:

Georges Braque, along with Picasso, co-founded the dominant art style of the twentieth century, Cubism. Although he began with landscapes, he shifted to still lifes later. This masterpiece is an example of Analytic Cubism, the first phase of Cubism which was short but influential. The elements in the painting are depicted in simple forms using multiple point-perspectives and it is painted in monochromatic style, i.e. different tones of a single color are used.