Juan Gris

Spanish painter
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Also known as: José Victoriano González
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Original name:
José Victoriano González
Born:
March 23, 1887, Madrid, Spain
Died:
May 11, 1927, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France (aged 40)

Juan Gris (born March 23, 1887, Madrid, Spain—died May 11, 1927, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France) was a Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism. Gris studied engineering at the Madrid School of Arts and Manufactures from 1902 to 1904, but he soon began making drawings for newspapers in the sensuously curvilinear Art Nouveau style. He moved to Paris in 1906 and settled at the Bateau-Lavoir, an artists’ dwelling where his compatriot Pablo Picasso lived. Gris was thus in touch with the evolution of Cubism, a style initiated by Picasso and Georges Braque around ...(100 of 244 words)