Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"The Open Window," Juan Gris, 1921.</p><p>Gris (1887-1927) is my favorite Cubist, which is pretty remarkable because I don't care much for Cubism overall. However, the strength of his line, and his willingness to experiment with a three-dimensional attitude, and how he makes his paintings comprehensible while still unmistakably Cubist just amazes me.</p><p>Here, we have a guitar, some sheet music, a bottle, a cup, and a bowl of nuts before an open window. But the window frame is askew and doesn't match up with the shutters. the sheet music intersects bizarrely with the bowl of nuts, and the clouds from the outside view are also inside. And yet...it all makes a certain sense. Gris was experimenting with perspective, light, and shadow, and it all works beautifully.</p><p>He died young, never moving on from Cubism, which may seem sad but he leaves a solid legacy.</p><p>From the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cubism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cubism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JuanGris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuanGris</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/StillLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StillLife</span></a></p>