The 50 Artworks of Juan Gris and with a shape Landscape and ...

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José Gonzales was born in Spain in 1887. In 1906 he moves to Paris, where he calls himself Juan Gris. He thinks this name is more suitable for a career as a caricature artist, which is what he has in mind. In Paris he joins the group of artists that has formed around Picasso and becomes one of the f...

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We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms on a tabletop in this nearly square still life painting. Near the center, a rectangular form like a newspaper is painted with the headline “LE JO...

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This painting shows one of the recurring elements in this stage of the artist/

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This painting from 1925 would be one of the last to be painted by Juan Gris; in its simplicity, however, Guitar in Front of the Sea maintains the ideas of 1915. A table with a guitar on it, sheet music or a book, a playing card, a piece of fruit and newspaper with a window open to the blue sky, the ...

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Though sinister cast shadows were no novelty, Gris’s ingeniously detached silhouettes stand for the things themselves, as with the wineglass, pipe, and bottle in this garishly colored scene. Unlike full-bodied objects, these apparitions are flat and insubstantial, eluding our grasp. Meanwhile, the s...

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