Cubism thus begat camouflage, life reflecting art instead of the usual opposite arrangement. Braque liked to joke that this wasn’t a first. After all, he said, soldiers arrayed in the last century’s pale blue or off-white uniforms resembled nothing so much as an impressionist canvas —at least until someone started shooting at them.1352 ↱
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