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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 Georges 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 Georges
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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