Georges Braque

I came across Georges Braque's name today in A Moveable Feast. Not knowing who he was, I went off on a search. It turns out he was a major 20th century artist - impressionist turned fauvist turned founder of cubism along with Picasso! While fauvism favored strong, lurid color, many of Braque's cubism paintings seem to favor browns and siennas, a fact which made Hemingway compare Paris's sanitary horse-drawn wagons to his work.

A screenshot from the Google search for "Braque"

"The tank wagons were painted brown and saffron color and in the moonlight when they worked the rue Cardinal Lemoine their wheeled, horse-drawn cylinders looked like Braque paintings."

I suppose the take-away is that this is a good lesson on "place." Even the seemingly basest or non-descript parts of life can add to knowing the nuances of a time. Even the mundane can be elevated by the artistic eye.