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-thread… - Juan Gris
" "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.<p>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.
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About Juan Gris
José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927)), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter who lived and worked in France almost all of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of Cubism.
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José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez
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Juan Gris José Victoriano González Pérez
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José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González Pérez
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José Victoriano González Pérez
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José Victoriano González
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José Vittoriano González
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Juan-José Victoriano González Gris
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Joan Gris
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José Victoriano Gonzalez
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José Vittoriano Gonzales
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José Gonzales
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José Victoriano Gonzáles Pérez
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José Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez
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Juan Gris José Victoriano Gonzalez Pérez
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José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos Gonzalez Pérez
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José Victoriano Gonzalez Pérez
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José Vittoriano Gonzalez
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Juan-José Victoriano Gonzalez Gris
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José Victoriano Gonzales Pérez
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Gris
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José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos Gonzalez-Perez
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José Victoriano González-Pérez
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No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.
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