Violin and candlestick
Violin and Candle stick is Georges Braque’s masterpiece. It was painted during the spring of 1910 in Paris. This piece is painted on canvas using oil paint and its size is 60.96 cm x 50.17 cm (24 in. x 19 ¾ in.).(SFMOMA n.d.) It is painted in monochromatic style; which is using one color only but with many different tones of the color. It also has a still-life theme, which means objects in the painting are carefully arranged. Some of the objects like violin and candle and be seen clearly while it is hard to tell what the other objects are. The painting is now exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern art. (acebcoleman, pr.3)
Resulting from Georges Braque’s love for stability and form and his intention to experiment Analytic Cubism, Violin and Candlestick is a painting that cracks, broke, and compressed the known objects and reconstructs it in multiple point-perspectives on a small space. He expressed this art of fragmentation as "a technique for getting closer to the object." (SFMOMA n.d.) He fits multiple surfaces on a flat canvas giving the viewers a three dimensional view on a two dimensional surface. This painting is decided to be viewed from different angles. He also blends the objects and the background by opening up the black-outlined objects and topping their boundaries by using earth-toned colors for the whole painting.(myartandsoul10, pr.1)
The focus point of this painting is at the center where the objects are placed and the colors are darker, drawing viewers’ attention. However, the violin is placed on the left side of the viewer to make the viewers look at the different parts of the painting. (myartandsoul10, pr.1)
Resulting from Georges Braque’s love for stability and form and his intention to experiment Analytic Cubism, Violin and Candlestick is a painting that cracks, broke, and compressed the known objects and reconstructs it in multiple point-perspectives on a small space. He expressed this art of fragmentation as "a technique for getting closer to the object." (SFMOMA n.d.) He fits multiple surfaces on a flat canvas giving the viewers a three dimensional view on a two dimensional surface. This painting is decided to be viewed from different angles. He also blends the objects and the background by opening up the black-outlined objects and topping their boundaries by using earth-toned colors for the whole painting.(myartandsoul10, pr.1)
The focus point of this painting is at the center where the objects are placed and the colors are darker, drawing viewers’ attention. However, the violin is placed on the left side of the viewer to make the viewers look at the different parts of the painting. (myartandsoul10, pr.1)