Abstraction (Guitar and Glass)
<p>Juan Gris traveled to Paris in 1906 and soon moved to the neighborhood of Montmartre, where he met <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artists/36198">Pablo Picasso</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artists/33739">Georges Braque</a>. Eventually, Gris joined their artistic circle and participated in the development of Cubism. In <em>Abstraction (Guitar and Glass)</em>, he incorporated objects often used in Cubist still-life painting—musical instruments, newspaper, a glass, and a tabletop. Rather than shatter their forms, however, Gris took a more synthetic approach to the composition. The overlapping planes, flattened appearance, and rhythmic patterns of the painting reinforce the two-dimensional nature of the picture’s surface, while the trompe l’oeil effects, deeply saturated colors, strong light-dark contrasts, and precise definition of forms give the still life an extraordinary physical reality.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 59.7 cm (36 × 23 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Juan Gris
Artist
Painting
José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez, commonly known as Juan Gris, was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1887. Gris initially studied mechanical drawing before studying painting in 1904 under the tutelage of academic painter José Maria Carbonero. In 1906, Gris relocated to Paris, which is where he predominantly lived and worked for the rest of his life.
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Duplicate of plate from Du Cubisme (On Cubism)
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Variant of plate from Du Cubisme (On Cubism)
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- Juan Gris
- Year
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 59.7 cm (36 × 23 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1913-139629
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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