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Historical Context:
The subject matter is a still life of a man with a guitar and guitars
were a particular favourite with cubist artists
It feels as if we are looking at the painting from different
viewpoints. The painting seems almost 3D not 2D
It has a monocratic colour scheme which was typical of analytical
cubism
The surfaces of the painting intersect at seemingly random
angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. This is typical as
they were rejecting the traditional ways of achieving perspective
Braque deliberately wanted to create new ways of seeing with
this painting and new way of creating images to compete with
early 20th century technology
Visual Analysis
The painting is of a man is playing the musical instrument, a mandola.
The mandola is similar in appearance to the classical lute. The
composition is an angular confused form, the painting is fractured and
informal. The colour is made up of restrained, metallic, and flat colours.
It used a narrow palette. There is little light and many dark contours.
Little sense of directional light can be seen and the painting is made up
of a narrow tonal range. The material is Oil on canvas and it is
unfinished. The painting has little depth as it is difficult to distinguish the
figure from the background. It appears compressed and shallow. The
painting is not on a grand scale and is mid-size.
Visual Analysis
This painting can be associated with Cubism because:
Visual Analysis:
The composition is angular, fractured, chaotic and informal. The
figures are arranged randomly and it appears very confusing.
There is a flat area of colour and it is mainly tones of oranges
and blues (complimentary colours.) There are dark contours and
little to no tonal modelling can be seen. It is oil on canvas and
has an unfinished quality to it. There is no depth and the
painting is very ambiguous. It is a very large painting on a
grand scale which was uncommon at the time for a nonhistorical painting.