Violin and Pitcher

Georges Braque’s Violin and Pitcher shows a combining of ideas and the beginning of analytical cubism. This work is perhaps Braque’s first break away from faceting purely to display subject matter and towards a style where facets flow of a logic of their own. The work of Paul Cezanne led the way for paintings like Violin and Pitcher. Cezanne was interested in the way light reacted to form rather than what it was …showed first 75 words of 910 total…

…showed last 75 words of 910 total…the building blocks for the breakthrough that Violin and Pitcher would start. Violin and Pitcher displayed a new level of abstraction which, with that of many other works, would become analytical cubism. What Violin and Pitcher had that earlier works did not, was such bold use of multiple viewpoints and extreme level of fragmentation. In turn, the analytical period of cubist work that Violin and Pitcher began would lay the building blocks for synthetic cubism.