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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Seated Woman," Juan Gris, 1917.

I've posted about Gris before, so I won't reiterate much aside from his being my favorite Cubist.

Cubism is a school that runs hot and cold with me. Sometimes I find it intriguing, sometimes offputting, but Gris' work is the only constant; I find it fascinating and appealing. Here an almost random jumble of shapes and colors coalesces in to a woman sitting on a chair. The strength of his line, and how you can see the elements through each other, make Gris a joy to behold for me.

From the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

A Cubist painting. Although appearing to be a cacophonous assemblage of shapes and colors, it does resolve into an image of a woman sitting in a chair.
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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Have you visited the art museum in Nukus, Uzbekistan?

"These included works of Constructivism, Cubism, Futurism and Neo-Primitivism which had been banned by Stalin in the 1930s and were considered to be degenerate forms of art.[6]"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukus_Mu

youtube.com/watch?v=Z14OChokAR

desertofforbiddenart.com/

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

The Bull by Vladimir Lysenko
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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

"Violin and Guitar," Juan Gris, 1913.

Gris (1887-1927) remains the only Cubist I'll go out of my way for. His use of color, and the clarity of his line, even though it's distorted, appeal to me. I've heard his style called "Crystal Cubism" which seems right to me. I get a haunting sense that if I just look at his work from the correct angle, it will all come together.

Despite the jumble of images, I can see this is a violin and guitar, on a table covered with a red checked tablecloth. A wallpapered backdrop, with a window, are behind it. There's also a bottle and maybe a roll of paper. Some Cubists seem to be projecting their middle finger at the viewer, while Gris seems to be earnestly communicating....but just in his own visual language.

Ill health took him at 40, and he never moved on from Cubism, but his legacy is a strong one.

From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

A Cubist painting, representing a violin and guitar on a tabletop, against a wallpapered backdrop. All done in Cubist distortion, though.
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