Posted
on March 23, 2015
Juan
Gris was a painter and sculptor, just like Pablo Picasso.
He
was from Spain, just like Picasso.
He
was one of the people who helped to invent Cubism. Just like Picasso.
But Picasso is much more famous!
Actually,
the name Juan Gris
isn't the name that today's birthday boy was born with on this date in
1887 - instead, he was born José Victoriano
González-Pérez.
It's interesting that this artist chose the name “Gris,” which
means “gray” in English, since he used a lot of vibrant colors in
his paintings!
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| These two pictures feature a guitar... |
Gris
was born and raised in Madrid, Spain's capital, and he studied
mechanical drawing in Madrid as well. In 1906 Gris moved to Paris and
became friends with some other artists, including Henri Matisse. He
lived in the same building (described as a “gloomy heap”) as
Picasso; Gris apparently thought of Picasso as something of a teacher, I guess maybe in the inspirational sense, but Picasso
is said to have been irritated with Gris.
It
was Gris's “Homage to Picasso” that established Gris as a great
artist. His paintings have been sold for tens of millions of dollars. (One sold for about $57 million - but one of Picasso's paintings, sold for more than $150 million!)
Gris
sadly died from kidney or renal problems when he was just 40 years
old.
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| These two paintings feature a violin... |
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