Georges Braque And Anne Carson

If “someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing the man has one eye,” then the man who draws a landscape for his eternity will believe there is nothing on the other side (Carson 140). Indeed, if the limit of your vision, your insight is as far as the eye can see, you lose the curiosity to know what lies beyond the horizon. Georges Braque, a prominent twentieth century painter who contributed as much to cubism as Picasso did, believed that perspective was a cursed thing. Though he originated by dabbling in impressionism, a more realistic form of art, he explored fauvism, the comparison of strong colors or realism, and later cubism. Braque played with the idea of perspective. What does it mean to see behind that which …show more content…
Even the beautiful view of a painted landscape was not enough that “watching the…landscape recede out of his grasp filled Braque with loss [that] he smashed them” (Carson 141). These perspectives, planes, shadings--these belong to the expression of the painter...the painter’s talk. Carson expressed herself in a different manner, through infinitives and participles...the writer’s talk. Both vow to never cease working his or her craft, to continue exposing the thought or reality of our thoughts and our …show more content…
Perhaps their men had sown the field, but why was the instead a forest of trees? What allowed that piece of fertile land to produce the bounty the women could reap? Even though “they knew everything there is to know about snowy fields and the blue-green shoots,” what they see now had not necessarily been always present (Carson 140). Their assumptions are human but naive. It is human nature to assume what is visible and present for us is the reality. However, this audacity doesn’t ring true when we compare the women’s reality over time, where many other creatures and events occurred that change one miniscule outcome to the reality the women know at that