1909, George Braque, Mandora -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: Braque collected musical instruments. His interest is reflected in this painting of a small lute called a mandora. Its fragmented style suggests a sense of rhythm and acoustic reverberation that matches the musical subject. Braque explained that he liked to include instruments in his cubist works: 'in the first place because I was surrounded by them, and secondly because their plasticity, their volumes, related to my particular concept of still life'.
1909, George Braque, Mandora -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: Braque collected musical instruments. His interest is reflected in this painting of a small lute called a mandora. Its fragmented style suggests a sense of rhythm and acoustic reverberation that matches the musical subject. Braque explained that he liked to include instruments in his cubist works: 'in the first place because I was surrounded by them, and secondly because their plasticity, their volumes, related to my particular concept of still life'.