Juan Gris
Juan Gris
José VictorianoGonzález-Pérez, better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth23 March 1887
CityMadrid, Spain
CountrySpain
serendipity results lost
The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
dog hands pet
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
exercise mind purpose
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.
mind technique states
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. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.
special bottles cylinders
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.
white black shadow
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
emotion
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
trying abstract concrete
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.