BRAQUE, houses at l'Estaque, 1908

Question 1

year

Answer 1

1908

Question 2

cezanne context

Answer 2

soon after cezannes death in 1906, Braque travelled down to l’estaque (fishermans village)

homage to cezanne

Question 3

l’estaque context

Answer 3

spent the autumn and beginning of winter of 1907 there, his responses were fauve in style

was enthralled by the light there

due to initial shock of the light, braque revisited between 1907-08 and came back with a series of paintings of houses at l’estaque

Question 4

characteristics of this ‘first cubist work’

Answer 4

rethinks the depiction of space, volume and mass

conceptual rather than perceptual view of the world proposed

Question 5

how did cubism emerge

Answer 5

this work comes before the exchanges between piccasso and braque that would later characterise analytical cubism

during exhibition of braques paintings at the Daniel-Henry Kannweiler gallery louis vauxcelles spoke of ‘small cubes’ to describe the compositions

was rejected by the salon d’automne when he submitted his 1908 collection of landscapes due to cubist style

Question 6

subject

Answer 6

-landscape characterised by roofs and facades

-villiage landscape seen from a hill

-tree is superimposed diagonally across the paintings lower frontal area

Question 7

space and perspective

Answer 7

-inspired by cezanne, braque and cubists quite logically reasoned that in order to actually portray the reality of an object they must represent the various perspectives of the object at the same time

-rejects single point linear perspective

-bildings portrayed from different viewpoints

-creates volume through colour (influence of cezanne who modelled by colour rather than tonal modelling

no aerial perspective

Question 8

colour

Answer 8

-creates volume through colour (influence of cezanne who modelled by colour rather than tonal modelling

Question 9

treatment of form

Answer 9

cubes used to depict houses

reduces trees to long shapes (geometrical abstract simplication of form)

in cases forms overlap/ are piled ontop eachother

forms tilt in and out of the picture

Question 10

faceting

Answer 10

faceting used: forms abut one another like shards of glass

Question 11

passage

Answer 11

-picked up from cezanne

-breaking of contours defining both things depicted (surfaces flow together, blurring distinction between solid form and space)