Comparing Braque's Still Life With Bottles And Glass

Famed names such as Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, and Vincent van Gough are just a few of the many European fine artists that took the world by storm when they mastered the idea of using art as a form of communication and substitution for ones locution. French artist, Georges Braque’s “Still Life with Bottles and Glasses” is a perfect example of analytical cubism, a visual art style created by Picasso and Braque which involves a series of overlapping planes and facets mostly in near-monochromatic browns, grays, or blacks.
In this particular analytical cubism painting, Braque combines the simplicity of few colors and the overlapping images and planes to portray a more complex illustration. The style of his brush strokes using mostly browns and blacks give the painting a unique quality of texture. They are not just simple lines, but rather a mixture of lines that flow with and against one another. From these mixtures of lines, he creates shapes both real and abstract, but mostly abstract. The real shapes that are shown within the painting are the letters he uses. The rest of the painting is mostly abstract with shapes having no real definition of an object that can be seen in real life. With the use of real and abstract shapes,
There are noticeable areas in the painting that are flat surfaced while other areas are thickened, and as a result, the painting becomes unlined, which is not common in most cubism art pieces. This then led me to question if the layers of paint or impasto areas were either created by a heavy-handed mistake or pure candidness. Granted, the crusty texture of the underlining paint layers do give the painting a rich variety and uniqueness, Braque also uses other materials such as stenciled letters onto paintings, blended pigments with sand, wood grain and marble to achieve differential levels of dimension in his