I don't exactly know why, but for some reason every time I look at George Braque's work, it resolves into the absolute symbolism of the musical genre of Jazz, the word Jazz immediately enters my head regardless of the subject matter related to a particular painting.
A more obvious stimulant in this case as it revolves around a musical instrument, yet
Violin and Palette was painted by Georges Braque in 1909 when he was living in Montmartre, a district of Paris while working Cubism into a joint movement with Pablo Picasso. Yet it was only after the end of the First World War in 1918, that Black musicians started arriving in Paris and were overwhelmingly accepted by the Parisians. The presence of the American soldiers and their Jazzy music, fundamentally changed the musical attitudes of Parisians after 1918. Now French men and women listened or danced to Cole Porter and even Gershwin.
Montparnasse gradually took over from Montmartre as the centre of art, cafes and bars. Meanwhile the Cubist movement's footprint grew in terms of numbers of exponents as well as its stature in the art world and seemed to herald the arrival of Jazz music on the scene. Almost acting as the artform of advance publicity ushering in the new music of Paris. Musicians like Sidney Becket took centre stage as did Django Reinhardt and Darius Milhaud. New attitudes, new ideas and new sounds.
