Braque’s 1910 painting Violin and Candlestick is analyzed above, and one narrative found is about the sacking of The Old Summer Palace during the Opium Wars. The video shows progressions towards an architectural description of The Old Summer Palace, caricatures of English and Chinese soldiers, battle scenes on water, and two, rich “interference fields,” where a person would stand in front of the layered image and allow their eyes to relax into optical illusions of the many animals that had been represented in front of The Old Summer Palace.
That is one story line, but there are several more, including a dominant Christian theme with many stories about ascension.