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GEORGES BRAQUE AND THE CUBIST STILL LIFE, 1928–1945 January 25, 2013 - April 21, 2013
Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 offers the first detailed examination of Braque’s experiments with still lifes and interiors during the years leading up to and through World War II. During the period between the wars, Braque exhibited a freer style of Cubism, intensifying his color use and a looser rendering of objects. However, he still remained committed to the cubist method of simultaneous perspective and fragmentation. Braque employed the genre of the still life to conduct a lifelong investigation into the nature of perception through the tactile and transitory world of everyday objects.
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Attending to the cyclical nature of the artist’s work, the exhibit examines the transformations in Braque’s creative process as he moved from painting small, intimate interiors in the late 1920s, to depicting bold, large-scale, tactile Cubist spaces in the 1930s, to creating personal renderings of daily life in the 1940s. It was after WWI when Braque resumed painting in late 1916 that he began to moderate the harsh abstraction of cubism. He developed a more personal style characterized by brilliant color and textured surfaces. His many still life subjects painted during this time maintain his emphasis on structure.
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The invention of Cubism was a joint effort between Picasso and Braque who were the style’s main innovators. After meeting in 1907, Braque and Picasso began working on the development of Cubism. French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first used the term Cubism, or “bizarre cubiques”, in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque. He described it as ‘full of little cubes’, after which the term quickly gained wide use. Both artists produced paintings of monochromatic color and complex patterns of faceted form, now termed Analytic Cubism. Unlike Picasso, Braque was interested mainly in developing Cézanne’s ideas of multiple perspectives. Braque’s essential subjects were the ordinary objects of life with which he created luminous, other-worldly still life and figure compositions. Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 is a collaboration with The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the exhibition will consist of more than thirty-five paintings, produced between 1928 and 1945, drawn from public and private collections in the United States and Europe. Following its showing at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from January 25 to April 21, 2013, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection, where it will be on view from June 8 to September 1, 2013. The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University, is located near the corner of Skinker and Forsyth Boulevards directly west of Forest Park on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on the exhibit and the Kemper please visit kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
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Mardi Gras Grand Parade Saturday, February 9
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HAPPY HOUR! M-F: 4-7PM • $8 Domestic Buckets
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