The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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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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