Georges Braque
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Braque exemplifies the early modernist rupture with single-point perspective that the course traces as foundational to how we now visualize information and systems. His Cubist flattening of pictorial space—breaking down unified viewpoints into multiple simultaneous perspectives—prefigures the distributed, fragmented visual logic that characterizes algorithmic and networked ways of seeing, making him a historical precedent for understanding how 20th-century art anticipated computational aesthetics.
Background
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.
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