Juan Gris, The Table - Smarthistory
Most of the objects are depicted from above and are placed along one of two distinct axes: one vertical and one diagonal. Aligned with the vertical axis we see a wine bottle on the right, the upper portion of a glass with its circular lip in the center, an open book at the bottom, and the stripes of the flowered wallpaper. A … See more
Like Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Gris used printed paper in his collage as a direct means to refer to objects. The wallpaper represents the wallpaper in the cafe where the still life is … See more
Gris displays various tricks and conceptual puzzles related to pictorial illusionism throughout the work. Above the headline “Le Vrai et le Faux” he depicted two cigarettes. One is painted … See more
In The Table, Gris developed the Cubist techniques and representational strategies used by Picasso and Braque into something distinctly his own. His drawings do not radically deconstruct objects as Picasso did in his drawing of a glass in Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass. Gris’ wine bottles are naturalistically drawn, as are the parts of … See more
In addition to describing the essential form of objects, note how the circles in The Table align with the main diagonal and vertical axes of the composition, creating a pattern of formal rhymes throughout the work. This is one of the most distinctive aspects of Gris’ style, the development of complex surface patterns based on a systematic … See more
Still Life: The Table - Philadelphia Museum of Art
WEBStill Life: The Table. 1914 Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927) A master of collage and papier collé, Juan Gris repeatedly worked within the austerely intellectual confines of the world …
Juan Gris - Wikipedia
The top auction price for a Gris work is $57.1 million (£34.8 million), achieved for his 1915 painting Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux (Still Life with Checked Tablecloth). This surpassed previous records of $20.8 million for his 1915 still life Livre, pipe et verres, $28.6 million for the 1913 artwork Violon et guitare and $31.8 million for The musician's table, now in the Met.
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Juan Gris | The Musician’s Table - The Metropolitan …
WEBTitle: The Musician’s Table. Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine) Date: 1914. Medium: Conté crayon, wax crayon, gouache, cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, blue and white laid papers, …
Juan Gris | Violin and Playing Cards on a Table | The …
WEBHere, Gris has painted a wood-grain table with three playing cards—heart, diamond, and club—a violin, and a copy of the newspaper Le Journal. The rust-red diamond pattern in the background emulates wallpaper and …
The Musician's Table - Juan Gris — Google Arts & Culture
WEBThis classicism and sense of order, which were very popular in the post-war period, is perhaps the most personal contribution that Juan Gris made to the Cubist movement, …
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WebMuseum: Gris, Juan: The Table - The Public's Library and …
WEBJul 14, 2002 · In The Table, Gris represents the still life table as both an upright oval, which coheres to the vertical plane of the canvas, and as a rectangular table receding in depth.
4.7.3: Juan Gris, The Table - Humanities LibreTexts
WEBJan 22, 2023 · Juan Gris’ The Table depicts a Cubist still life using an elaborate combination of traditional naturalism, abstraction, and papier collé (pasted paper …
Juan Gris | Still Life with Checked Tablecloth | The …
WEBGris, a master of disguised images, presents a table brimming with coffee cups, stemmed wineglasses, a large white-footed fruit compote (seen from the side and from above) containing thickly painted grapes, a bottle of …
The Table, 1914 - Juan Gris - WikiArt.org
WEBSep 25, 2020 · The Table (1914) by Juan Gris is an example of papier collé (cut and pasted paper), a form of collage that was first used by Cubist painter Georges Braque in Fruit Dish and Glass (1912). …
