Final task - What is Art?

Violino e paleta (I can not find the translation), was painted by Georges Braques in 1909. It shows us what it seems to be a person with a violin.

This piece was painted with oil, and it is a small painting, of only 91x42,8 centimeters. In general, the figure consists in geometrical forms and was drawn like a puzzle, with the object dismembered and with superimposed plans. This technique is also used in other pieces by this artist and cubist movement, being very characteristic of the latter (the geometrical figures and similar features). The figure seems to be opened to the viewer, as if we could see all the sides of the object. We can see that the violin is repeated, though in a smaller size, and the center is the clearest point of the painting. Braques used neutral and dark colours (specially grey and brown), with no vcariation of the same, creating a heavy atmosphere in the object. However, we can see that some lines are darker, so we can figure out the most important figures.

It is difficult to have an interpretation of a figure that you can not quite understand, with no certain object besides two violines. But maybe the violines are what trully matters, being more defined and clear than other possible figure in the painting. The colours and lines helps us to get this conclusion, once, like said before, it is got by the better definition of the object.

This undefinition of the object makes this interpretation and my response to the painting probably not the best one, or the most apropriate. I can not say what it is, because I do not know; I do not have any kind of interpretation of this painting. Nevertheless, it matters to try to analyse it, so we can open ourselves to new realities.