• Picasso was born in the Spanish city of Málaga.
• He moved to France after viewing works from artists such as Gauguin, Van Gogh and Lautrec.                                                                           
• He was a painter, sculptor, graphic designer and a ceramist.
• Before cubism, his truly original works were from his Blue Period and Rose Period.
• After cubism, between the wars, he switched to a more Classicist mode of representation.     
                                                                                                                                                                                  
               Self Portrait                                                                                                 Self Portrait                                                                                                      A Young Picasso
                    1900                                                                                                              1907                                                                                                          1916 photograph
         Charcoal on Paper                                                                                          Oil on canvas

Georges Braque  (1882--1963)

"There is only one thing valuable in art; the thing you cannot explain." -- Georges Braque

• Braque was born in Argenteuil, near Paris. 
• In 1900, he moved to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
• At first Braque adopted the Fauvist style and in 1907 became impressed by Cézanne's style.
• Braque enlisted in the French army and suffered a severe head wound in 1915 and started painting again in 1917.
• In the 1920s he moved into a classical phase, including Greek-inspired figures in his work.

    Georges Braque
Gelatin Silver Print, 1930
Man Ray

Examples of Braque's works of art

Example of two works of art, one done by Picasso, the other Braque, that have extreme similarities

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Photos credited:
    Self Portrait, 1900 & Self Portrait, 1907: www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso.html         A Young Picasso, 1916: www.commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:PabloPicasso1916   
  Gelatin Silver Print of Georges Braque, 1930 by Man Ray: www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o53208.html