2: Georges Braque

'Interior With Palette' - 1942



'Bottle and Fishes' - 1910

I do not usually enjoy Cubism/ Fauvism - I don't like the colours (too gaudy) or the naive way they're painted, however with Braque's work, I like the deconstruction and reconstruction of perspectives. It takes an ordinary 3D object, and creates it in to a new semi-abstract sculptural piece of work. It is strange how it looks so sculptural even though it is 2D.
'Bottle and Fishes' is more of a small subject, it is more of a play on angles, and the rearrangement of views.
'Interior with Palette' is of a larger open space, and so the play becomes more on the depth and distances. The perspectives are brought forward where they would usually receed, and the overall effect is level and 2D.
For this, I prefer 'Bottle and Fishes' for reinventing the 3D quality of an object, rather than eliminating it.

[Images from www.artchive.com]