Name:
Juan Gris
Born:
23 March 1887, Madrid, Spain
Died:
11 May 1927, Paris, France
Active
Years: 1911 - 1927
Nationality:
Spanish
Art
Movement: Cubism
Field:
Painting, drawing
Influenced
on: Karl Otto Gotz, Balcomb Greene, Fernando
García Ponce
Friends/Co-workers:
Amedeo Modigliani, Alice Bailly
José Victoriano González-Pérez,
better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter who was born on March 23,
1887, and died on May 11, 1927. He worked most of his life in France and his
work is closely related to Cubism, a genre of art that was innovative at the time.
Gris was born in Madrid and studied
engineering at the Madrid School of Arts and Sciences. From 1902 to 1904, he
contributed drawings to local periodicals there. From 1904 to 1905, Gris
studied painting with the academic artist José Moreno Carbonero and began using
his name as Juan Gris in 1905.
In 1906, Gris moved to Paris, and
became friends with the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and artists
Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger. In Paris, Gris
followed the lead of Metzinger and another friend and colleague Pablo Picasso.
In 1911, after giving up working of
a satirical cartoonist, Gris began to paint seriously and developed a personal
Cubist style at this time. He exhibited his work for the first time at the 1912
Salon des Indépendants with a painting entitled “Hommage à Pablo Picasso.”
At first, Gris painted in the style
of Analytical Cubism, a term he later coined, but after 1913 he began to switch
to Synthetic Cubism. Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were
practically monochromatic, Gris painted in bright and harmonious colors in the
way of his friend Matisse. His work, which favored clarity and order,
influenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret
(Le Corbusier), and made Gris an important example of the postwar "return to order" movement.
Gris died of kidney failure at the
age of 40 in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris on 11 May 1927.
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