Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez, better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period.
15 Facts About Juan Gris
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In 1912 Juan Gris met Charlotte Augusta Fernande Herpin, known as Josette.
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Juan Gris submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as the anarchist satirical magazine L'Assiette au Beurre, and Le Rire, Le Charivari, and Le Cri de Paris.
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In Paris, Juan Gris followed the lead of Metzinger and another friend and fellow countryman, Pablo Picasso.
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Juan Gris began to paint seriously in 1911, developing at this time a personal Cubist style.
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Juan Gris exhibited for the first time at the 1912 Salon des Independants.
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In 1912, Juan Gris exhibited at the Exposicio d'art cubista, Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, the first declared group exhibition of Cubism worldwide; the gallery Der Sturm in Berlin; the Salon de la Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne in Rouen; and the Salon de la Section d'Or in Paris.
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At first Juan Gris painted in the style of Analytical Cubism, a term he himself later coined, but after 1913 he began his conversion to Synthetic Cubism, of which he became a steadfast interpreter, with extensive use of papier colle or, collage.
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Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were practically monochromatic, Juan Gris painted with bright harmonious colors in daring, novel combinations in the manner of his friend Matisse.
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Juan Gris exhibited with the painters of the Puteaux Group in the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1912.
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Juan Gris's preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of Amedee Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret, and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" movement.
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Juan Gris articulated most of his aesthetic theories during 1924 and 1925.
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Juan Gris delivered his definitive lecture, Des possibilites de la peinture, at the Sorbonne in 1924.
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Major Juan Gris exhibitions took place at the Galerie Simon in Paris and the Galerie Flechtheim in Berlin in 1923 and at the Galerie Flechtheim in Dusseldorf in 1925.
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Juan Gris died of kidney failure in Boulogne-sur-Seine on 11 May 1927, at the age of 40, leaving a wife, Josette, and a son, Georges.