\paperw4995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \f1 \ATXsh255 French painter. \ATXsh4607 \par
\ATXsh255 After a decade spent in Le Havre, he went to Paris in 1900, where he began his artistic
research, at first devoting himself to painting in the Impressionist style and then moving toward the Fauves. The discovery of CΘzanne led him in the direction of Cubism, which he founded together with Picasso. Still lifes were his preferred theme in bo
th the first phase of Analytical Cubism and the later one of Synthetic Cubism, which introduced several new techniques into painting. For Braque, Cubism represented a period of extraordinary inventive richness, but it did not mark the end of his expressi
ve and formal research, which he continued after the interruption of the First World War, tackling new subjects. After 1940 his work was dominated by new motifs that found expression in the marvelous series of pictures that he produced over the\i Studio
\i0 period, followed by the period of the \i Birds\i0 . In addition to painting, Braque also worked as a sculptor. BraqueÆs work played a fundamental part in the history of contemporary art, making a decisive contribution to the formulation of the new p
roblem of the representation of the object in space and laying the foundations for the birth of abstract art.\ATXsh4607
