Oil Paint
Oil paint is a slow-drying art medium made with pigment and a drying-oil binder that allows extended working time, smooth blending, and layered application.
Painter
Georges Braque
Georges Braque was a French painter who helped develop Cubism, combining fragmented still lifes with textured oil paint, stenciling, and paper collage.
Georges Braque quick facts
Braque used his decorative-painting training to imitate wood and marble, then introduced pasted wallpaper into Cubist drawings in 1912.
| Born | 1882 · Argenteuil, France |
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| Died | 1963 · Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Movements | Cubism · early Fauvism |
| Paint types | Oil Paint · Gouache Paint |
| Painting surfaces | Canvas · Paper · Cardboard |
| Painting methods | Analytic fragmentation, stenciled lettering, imitated wood grain, papier collé, and sand mixed with paint or ground |
| Common subjects | Guitars, violins, bottles, fruit, tables, interiors, birds, and landscapes |
| Notable works | Houses at l'Estaque · Violin and Palette · Fruit Dish and Glass · The Portuguese |
| Other materials | Cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, charcoal, sand, and occasional unprimed canvas |
Sources: MoMA: Georges Braque, The Met: Still Life, oil and sand, The Met: Fruit Dish and Glass, Guggenheim Bilbao: Braque and his materials, SFMOMA: Georges Braque.
Paint types used
Braque used oil for Cubist paintings and sand-textured canvases, while gouache appears in documented collages and painted studies on paper.
Gouache Paint
Gouache paint is an opaque, water-based art medium made with pigment and a water-soluble binder, drying to a matte finish that can be reactivated with water.
Surface types used
Braque painted on canvas, integrated gouache and pasted paper into collages, and made gouache stage designs on cardboard.
Canvas
Canvas is a woven fabric support, commonly cotton or linen, used for painting and sold either raw or prepared with a compatible ground layer.
Paper
Paper is an absorbent sheet material made from pressed fibers, with weight, sizing, and surface texture controlling moisture tolerance and paint behavior.
Cardboard
Cardboard is a lightweight, absorbent paper-based sheet material whose fibers and corrugated layers can soften or warp when exposed to heavy wet coats.
Painters similar to Georges Braque
Picasso and Braque worked closely on early Cubism, jointly exploring fractured objects, multiple viewpoints, and unconventional materials.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist whose long career moved through many styles and media, from the Blue and Rose periods to Cubism, classicism, Surrealism, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics.