Georges braque guillaume apollinaire biographies
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Summary of Guillaume Apollinaire
The name of Guillaume Apollinaire is synonymous with the rise of the early-twentieth-century avant garde. A fixture of Parisian café society, he rubbed shoulders with other young bohemians, making friends with numerous artists including Raoul Dufy, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Pablo Picasso. Though not a painter himself, nor formally schooled in art history (unlike, say, Vasari or Greenberg, writers who brought their own indominable influence to bear on Renaissance Art and Abstract Expressionism respectively), he was an enthusiastic, infatigable, champion of the modernists, and is credited with alerting these kindred spirits to the new artistic horizons opened up by studying African masks and the "naïve" paintings of Henri Rousseau. Through his lyrical art criticism, for which he remains best remembered, Apollinaire did more than any other writer of his generation in establishing the legends of some of the most important artists of the cent
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Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)
Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882 in Argenteuil-sur-Seine and died in 1963 in Paris. He grew up in a family of painters and decorators. He was eight years old when his family moved to Le Havre. From 1897 to 1899, he attended evening classes at the Beaux-Arts and then followed in his father's footsteps by undertaking an apprenticeship as a painter-decorator. At the age of 18, he went to Paris to perfect his training, where he learned the techniques of trompe l'oeil, fake wood and fake marble, elements that would be decisive in the development of Cubism.
After his military service, he settled permanently in Paris (rue Lepic in Montmartre) and took drawing classes at the Académie Humbert (from 1902 to 1904) where he met Francis Picabia and Marie Laurencin. Braque had only one idea in mind, to become a painter.
Inspired by Cézanne and Fauvism, his first landscapes of L'Estaque and La Ciotat, in 1906 and 1907, at the entrance to th
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Biography
Guillaume Apollinaire was born on August 26, 1880 as Guglielmus Apollinaris Albertus dem Kostrowitsky in Rome, Italy. Apollinaire spent his childhood in Rome. Later, he went to school in Monaco, Nice and Cannes. Using different pseudonyms, Apollinaire wrote his first poems and essays. Apollinaire went to Paris. There, he worked as a clerk in a bank, writing poems in his free time. In addition, he published several small magazines. In Paris, he made the inspiring acquaintance of great artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In 1910 Apollinaire published 23 collected writings beneath the title L'Hérésiarque & Cie. Those stories were mainly short and written in ganska a dark and morbid style. The book was nominated for the Prix Goncourt, but wasn't awarded in the end. Also, Apollinaire's collected essays "Les peintres cubistes" ("The cubist painters") from 1913 fryst vatten considered to be an extraordinary book that helped cubism to attract more publ