The artist of the painting Landscape at La Ciotat was
Georges Braque who was born in France on May 13th 1882 and died on
august 31st 1963. He was also part of the development of the cubism
along with Pablo Picasso. In the 1900 Braque had moved to Paris to continue his
studies. While he was living in Paris he became inspired with the work of many artists
such as Matisse, Derain, Dufy and Cézanne.
Just as in the painting La Ciotat, George’s has a few other paintings
of other landscapes which were also painted with many bright colors some of
these portraits are The Large Trees, and Road near L Estaque. The portrait La
Ciotat was finished in the summer of 1907 and it’s about 28 1/4 x 23 3/8"
(71.7 x 59.4 cm.) In the summer of 1907 Georges
Braque was working in the resort town of La Ciotat in France were he painted
the Landscape at La Ciotat while “using heavy outlines, flattened space, and
intense, harmonic colors.”
I believe that the reason why he used such bright colors in
his landscape was because of his perspective of nature. I think that His point
of view of nature was that nature is beautiful, bright and full of life. It could
even be that the portrait of this landscape was an imitation of how the resort
of La Ciotat appeared to him.
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