Word: picasso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like almost all modern artists, Georges Braque was caught in the propeller of his fast-flying onetime friend Pablo Picasso. But in Braque's case it didn't hurt a bit. Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art was staging the biggest Braque show ever seen in the U.S.-114 pieces covering every phase of his career. Braque may not be the alltime great painter he is considered in Paris, but the Cleveland show gave ample evidence that he ranks with the finest alive...
Unlikely Cheroot. Unlike Picasso's, Braque's best paintings are apt to be recent works. A standout (not in the show) was The Carafe (1942), a dinnertime still life in black, brown, blue and beige. Braque had ingeniously illuminated the canvas with three different kinds of light -the silvery gleam of a spoon, the watery sparkle of a carafe, and the glint of fish scales-all successfully simulated by bare patches of canvas used in contrast to the surrounding depths of color...
...brought up in Le Havre. His father, a house painter, encouraged the boy's attempts to draw, but his teachers at the local Ecole des Beaux Arts wondered why. A slow, deliberate student, Braque accomplished nothing much until 1909, the year he teamed up with Picasso. The two became inseparable and for a while their work was almost indistinguishable. Together they invented "cubism"*-painting the visible world as if it were built of tiny blocks, and tumbling the blocks about at will...
Missing Models. By 1914 they had quarreled. Picasso went his wild way; Braque stuck with cubism. Over the years Braque's paintings grew simpler and subtler, his cubes melted and merged. Where his predominantly low-keyed palette had given even his landscapes a stuffy, indoor look, he came to use flashes of fresh color. His compositions looked fragile as a house of cards, but being perfectly balanced they stood...
...Marsh, most modern art is "phony sub-primitivism. Critics may not know what's wrong with Picasso, but any layman can tell you. The question is, what does it mean?" Questioned as to the meaning of his own work, Marsh says with a faintly puzzled air that it means what it describes-New York. "This is a new city, wide-open to an artist. It offers itself...