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Juan Gris

Spanish artist (1887-1927) · Spain · Artists · Died at 40

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He took Cubism's fractured geometry and made it sing in color - cleaner, cooler, more composed than Picasso or Braque ever dared.

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  1. Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle - a particular bottle - out of a cylinder.

    Feb 1921, Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of L'Esprit Nouveau # 5 (February 1921),, Own words

  2. I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

    Feb 1921, Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of L'Esprit Nouveau # 5 (February 1921), Own words

  3. I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

    1876, Attributed by (1876-1944) to Juan Gris, quoted in: Jeanine Warnod (1972). Washboat days. p. 204, Own words

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About this person

Born José Victoriano González-Pérez in Madrid on 23 March 1887, he left Spain for France and spent most of his working life there. He adopted the name Juan Gris and became closely connected to Cubism, the movement that was splintering perspective and reassembling it on canvas. His paintings stand among the most distinctive the genre produced - precise where others were wild, structured where they were searching. He died on 11 May 1927, forty years old.

Country
Spain
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1887 to 1927 · aged 40

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