pablo and georges

"Two figures stand out among the creators of Cubism--Picasso and Braque...Picasso represents the adventurous and chimerical exaggeration of Spain.  His genius is informed by an insatiable creative power.  He is full of vagaries and fantastic imaginings, but he has always been a self-critic even in his most brilliant phases of negation.  Braque, on the other hand, brought to Cubism a constructive, positive and logical element that is typically French.  Picasso denies, Braque accepts...."

From The Holiday Painter -- J. Martin-Barbaz (Emerson Books, 1961)

Pictured:  The Accordionist, Pablo Picasso (Wikimedia Commons) and Aria de Bach, Georges Braque (National Gallery of Art)