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32" x 25" unframed (3 layers) "Braque, like most modern artists, was anti-renascence: 'the whole Renaissance tradition is antipathetic to me;' perspective seemed wrong, he stated, because it created distance between the viewer and the object; art should bring them together to offer 'the full experience of space.' Of the four elements, air, or space, is most closely linked with the soul on the basis of the medium through which it travels; like air the soul is intangible and invisible, permeates and cannot be delimited. 'All my life,' he explained, 'my great preoccupation has been to paint space.'" Suzanne Nalbautian, 1977. |
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