Kubism
Nationality Spanish
Field Painting, Sculpture
Movement Cubism
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 May 11, 1927), better known as Juan
Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His
works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre--Cubism,
creating several of the movement's most distinctive works.[1]
Biography
Born in Madrid, he studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in
Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals.
From 1904 to 1905 he studied painting with the academic artist José Maria Carbonero. It was
probably in 1905 that José González adopted the more distinctive pseudonym Juan Gris.[2]
In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand
Léger, and in 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In Paris, Gris followed
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