Spanish artist (1887–1927)
He took Cubism's fractured geometry and made it sing in color—cleaner, cooler, more composed than Picasso or Braque ever dared.
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.
Sourced, dated quotes from Juan Gris
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.
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants.
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.
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