Job
Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963)
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.
Medium: Drypoint
Classification: Prints
Object number: 1954.6
Label Text:Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso together developed a new and highly influential language of representation known as Cubism. In this café still -life, forms are fragmented and dispersed, light and shadow are placed at will to create relief and continuity, and space, as Braque proclaimed, is ‘materialized’. Links with reality are maintained through the inclusion of legible details: a nail with its shadow, a long-stemmed clay pipe, dice, an anchor-labeled package. Words and letters serve as seemingly informative complements: JOB, a brand of French cigarette paper and French slang for a deception; HAV, the letters of the seaport Le Havre, where Braque grew up; ANCHE, a fragment, perhaps, of the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. The result is highly ambiguous and tantalizingly elusive, a poetic “lyricism which stems entirely from the means employed,” as Braque wrote.
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