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Juan Gris
(Mar.13,1887 Madrid - May 11,1927 Paris) Spanish Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Juan Gris original name was Jose Victoriano Gonzalez, a Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still life's are major works of art of the style called Synthetic Cubism. Gris studied studied mathematics, physics and engineering before taking up oil painting at the Madrid School of Arts and Manufactures in 1902-04 and soon began making drawings for newspapers in the sensuously curvilinear Art Nouveau style. He moved to Paris in 1906, he adopted the pseudonym by which he is known and settled in Montmartre in an artists dwelling where his compatriot Pablo Picasso also lived, he also became friends with Henri Matisse at this time. Between 1907 and 1912 he watched closely the development of the cubist style. He did his first significant paintings in 1910 and adopted the Cubist style the following year. In 1912, the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler agreed to purchase his entire artistic output and in 1912 exhibited his Homage to Picasso (collection of Mrs. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Chicago), which established his reputation as a oil painter of the first rank and of the worlds artist. He worked closely with Picasso and Braque until the outbreak of World War I, adapting what had been their intuitive innovations to his own methodical temperament.
In 1913-14 Juan Gris arrived at a personal and mature version of Synthetic Cubism characterized by rigorously geometrical compositions in which fragmented objects and sharp-edged planes are articulated with maximum clarity, incorporating decorative or printed paper into a picture (a technique known as 'papier collé'). Gris produced works with a systematic eye, composing his works as an architect would design a building. A more theoretical painter than Picasso or Georges Braque, Gris systematized their discoveries, making their intuitions comprehensible and consequently, helping to spread the Cubist style. His version of Cubism was more severe and classical, less spontaneous and instinctive than theirs.
In the 1920s, Gris designed costumes and scenery for the Russian Ballet. He also completed some of the boldest and most mature statements of his cubist style, with landscape still life's that compress interiors and exteriors into synthetic cubist compositions, such as The Open Window (M. Meyer Collection, Zurich). Instead of a still life before a window, Gris discovered an archetypical subject for him, the musical instrument before nature, the two principal components have long traditions in art history and in Gris's own evolution. Again, Gris's friendship with Henri Matisse may have intervened, for until the latter's paintings of 1917, an instrument before a window did not exist in the history of the window motif in art.
Between 1921 and 1927 Gris transformed his Synthetic Cubist idiom so that his style became increasingly free and musical, Juan Gris was the third musketeer of Cubism and actually pushed Cubism further to its logical conclusion until his untimely death in 1927 at the age of 39.
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The Open Window
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The Guitar
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Bottles and Knife
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Guitar and Music Paper
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