Juan
Gris was born in 1887. He was a Spanish born French painter
who went to the cubist school. Originally his name was
Jose Vittoriano Gonzalez, he was born in Madrid and educated
there. He left Madrid in 1906 and went to Paris, making
the acquaintance of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and of
the French painter George Braque. Gris's first cubist
paintings, generally more calculated than those of Picasso
and Braque, appeared in 1912.
Throughout 1912 and beyond, Juan Gris who was working
with the likes of Picasso and George Braques introducing
real materials such as chair caning and wallpaper--either
the actual materials or painted facsimiles--into their
works in what came to be known as collage. This synthesis
or reconstitution of reality, called synthetic cubism,
proved to be of fundamental importance to the development
of modern art.
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