“Emotion must not be rendered by an emotional trembling. It is not something that is added, or that is imitated. It is the germ, the work is the flowering.”

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“Emotion must not be rendered by an emotional trembling. It is not something that is added, or that is imitated. It is the germ, the work is the flowering.”

—painter Georges Braque.

What emotion is the germ of this work?

Source: Harrison and Wood, Art in Theory: 1900-1990.

Flowers Decorating a Stone Relief of the Virgin and Child

European Art: Mezzanine»

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