Braque and Cubism

Georges Braque, along with Pablo Picasso, founded the Cubist movement between the years of 1909 and 1912. Working alongside one another, sometimes in collaboration, they became the founders of the movement vital to many of the well- known movements of the twentieth century.
Braque became well known among artists for his early work as a Fauvist but it was his work recreating Cezanne that got the attention of the art community. Louis Vauxelles, a writer, first commented: “Braque has reduced his canvas to little cubes,” (Hunter, 132) and so the coining of the name “cubism.” It was obvious to the art community that Braque was not simply trying to recreate Cezanne, but that he had derived the “sensation of bulk… without depicting literal mass” (Wilkin, 43) from him. This idea can be seen in his painting from 1908 called “Houses at L’Estaque” in that the houses seem to have mass even though classical ideas about perspective...