1906, Georges Braque, The Bay of Antwerp -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Impressed by Fauvism, the 23-year-old Braque embraced its liberal brushwork and intuitive use of colours distant from nature one year after the legendary exhibition with which Fauvism established itself as an art movement. He destroyed his pictures painted in the Impressionist style and went in search of new experiences with regard to the treatment of light and colour in the Bay of Antwerp. Here a hazy evening sky above the dunes clads the Scheldt landscape in amorphous yellow, orange, and green patches of colour, which are refracted on the surface of the water in the form of violet hues and evoke the atmosphere of a warm summer day. Braque's preoccupation with Fauvism only lasted a short while: Cézanne would turn out to be more influential on Braque's way to Cubism.
1906, Georges Braque, The Bay of Antwerp -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Impressed by Fauvism, the 23-year-old Braque embraced its liberal brushwork and intuitive use of colours distant from nature one year after the legendary exhibition with which Fauvism established itself as an art movement. He destroyed his pictures painted in the Impressionist style and went in search of new experiences with regard to the treatment of light and colour in the Bay of Antwerp. Here a hazy evening sky above the dunes clads the Scheldt landscape in amorphous yellow, orange, and green patches of colour, which are refracted on the surface of the water in the form of violet hues and evoke the atmosphere of a warm summer day. Braque's preoccupation with Fauvism only lasted a short while: Cézanne would turn out to be more influential on Braque's way to Cubism.