Focus on this artwork and discuss the abstract.
Houses at l'Estaque (French: Maisons à l'Estaque, or Maisons et arbre) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Georges Braque executed in 1908. It is considered either an important Proto-Cubist landscape or the first Cubist landscape. The painting prompted art critic Louis Vauxcelles to mock it as being composed of cubes which led to the name of the movement.It is a response to works by Paul Cézanne who also lived in L'Estaque at times.
Proto-Cubist Georges Braque Louis Vauxcelles L'Estaque Paul Cézanne