Little Harbor in Normandy.
Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963
Little Harbor in Normandy
Braque was mobilized for world war 1. He described channel coast in severe geometries and a palette. He reduced the intensity to pales shades of color. Braque added a fringe of whitecaps to the sea and dashes of clouds across the sky, the two sailboats forward to the front edges of the picture propel the first major Cubist work to be shown in such a prominent venue.
It was a mess. Extravagant, scary. Miserable, roughly. Imagination, creativity, mystery. and it is also brilliantly, simple. Dark, complicated. It was an illusion of world war 2 destruction. Little Harbor in Normandy.
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