On this day, 62 years ago, on August 31, 1963 (July 13, 1963 in the lunar calendar), Cubist painter George Brak passed away. French cubist artist Georges Brac On August 31, 1963, Georges Brac, the first artist to raise and lower the painter's canvas, died in Paris. He and Picasso founded the Cubist School, which displayed the people and objects painted in multiple levels, combining time and vision. Brak was born on May 13, 1882. Like most painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was deeply influenced by Impressionism, keen on loose structures and sparkling colors. In 1907, at the retrospective exhibition in Cézanne in Paris, he met Picasso. Both of them greatly appreciated Cézanne's composition method. They both practiced it. Brak likes to depict still lifes, cutlery and musical instruments. In the 1930s, he turned to the beach scenery. In the last 20 years of his life, he was enthusiastic about painting birds.