HOUSES AT L'ESTAQUE (final)

Question 1

year

Answer 1

1908

Question 2

artist

Answer 2

BRAQUE

Question 3

cezanne context

Answer 3

soon after cezannes death in 1906, Braque travelled down to l’estaque (fishermans village)

homage to cezanne

Question 4

l’esaque and braque context

Answer 4

spent the autumn and beginning of winter of 1907 there, his responses were fauve in style

was enthralled by the light there

due to initial shock of the light, braque revisited between 1907-08 and came back with a series of paintings of houses at l’estaque

Question 5

characteristics of this ‘first cubist work’

Answer 5

rethinks the depiction of space, volume and mass

conceptual rather than perceptual view of the world proposed

Question 6

how did cubism emerge

Answer 6

this work comes before the exchanges between piccasso and braque that would later characterise analytical cubism

during exhibition of braques paintings at the Daniel-Henry Kannweiler gallery louis vauxcelles spoke of ‘small cubes’ to describe the compositions

was rejected by the salon d’automne when he submitted his 1908 collection of landscapes due to cubist style

Question 7

subject

Answer 7

-landscape characterised by roofs and facades

-villiage landscape seen from a hill

-tree is superimposed diagonally across the paintings lower frontal area

Question 8

space and perspective

Answer 8

-inspired by cezanne, braque and cubists quite logically reasoned that in order to actually portray the reality of an object they must represent the various perspectives of the object at the same time

-rejects single point linear perspective

-bildings portrayed from different viewpoints

-creates volume through colour (influence of cezanne who modelled by colour rather than tonal modelling

no aerial perspective

Question 9

colour

Answer 9

-creates volume through colour (influence of cezanne who modelled by colour rather than tonal modelling)

-discards bright fauvist colour he had been using, instead uses a pallette of dark greens, ochre’s and browns (pallette not yet monochromatic- becomes so in the analytical phase of cubism)

Question 10

treatment of form

Answer 10

cubes used to depict houses

reduces trees to long shapes (geometrical abstract simplication of form)

in cases forms overlap/ are piled ontop eachother (negating recession)

forms abut one another like shards of glass- faceting

form and mass built up through cezannist patches of colour

forms tilt in and out of the picture

Question 11

faceting

Answer 11

faceting used: forms abut one another like shards of glass

Question 12

passage

Answer 12

-picked up from cezanne

-breaking of contours defining both things depicted (surfaces flow together, blurring distinction between solid form and space)

Question 13

CRITICAL QUOTES

Answer 13

‘small cubes’ -louis Vauxcelles

‘cezanne was the first to turn away from the mechanised perpective being taught’

Question 14

DISPLAY

Answer 14

-subitted his works from l’esaque to salon d’automne in 1908 but rejected

-exhibition of braques paintings at the Daniel-Henry Kannweiler gallery

Question 15

BRUSHWORK

Answer 15

visable

Question 16

INFLUENCE OF IMPRESSIONISM

Answer 16

capturing the viewer experience