Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Guitar and Fruit Bowl
Alternate Title:
Guitare et compotier
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Juan Gris (Spanish painter, 1887-1927)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DO02776
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1926-1927 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
73 cm (height) x 60 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; still life; Musical instruments; guitar
Description:
Gris's works from late 1916 through 1917 exhibit a greater simplification of geometric structure with oblique overlapping planar constructions, tending away from equilibrium. In 1919 and particularly 1920, artists and critics began to write conspicuously about this "synthetic" approach, and to assert its importance in the overall scheme of advanced Cubism. Gris was ill from 1925, and died the year this painting was created. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GRIS-MRS-GFB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Guitar and Fruit Bowl