The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... Braque was painting : a country house seen over a bushy slope , with a tree sloping away to the left ( plates 9 , 10 ) . Braque turned this simple motif into a curious play of ambiguities . Every scrap of detail is edited out of the ...
... Braque was painting : a country house seen over a bushy slope , with a tree sloping away to the left ( plates 9 , 10 ) . Braque turned this simple motif into a curious play of ambiguities . Every scrap of detail is edited out of the ...
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... Braque's paintings at La Roche - Guyon . In 1909 , Picasso went painting in northern Spain , in the village of Horta ... Braque's house at Estaque - one feels that the whole image could almost be picked , like sculpture , off the canvas ...
... Braque's paintings at La Roche - Guyon . In 1909 , Picasso went painting in northern Spain , in the village of Horta ... Braque's house at Estaque - one feels that the whole image could almost be picked , like sculpture , off the canvas ...
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... Braque might have taken his motto from Pascal : Le moi est haissable ( The ego is hateful ) , for he was one of the arch - classicists of modern painting , and throughout his career he called himself an artiste - peintre , a phrase more ...
... Braque might have taken his motto from Pascal : Le moi est haissable ( The ego is hateful ) , for he was one of the arch - classicists of modern painting , and throughout his career he called himself an artiste - peintre , a phrase more ...
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