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...Avignon. Almost half a century later, cubism, although short-lived, ranks as one of the most influential movements in art history. To salute its achievements, the Venice Biennale this summer is exhibiting 29 paintings by the purest cubist of them all, Picasso's friend and countryman, Juan Gris...
Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
...never consciously and after mature reflection became a cubist," said Gris, "I have never had to think about it like some one outside the movement." When he finally tried conventional portraits, he wrote his friend, Art Dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: "It's fun for me all the time to learn how it is done ... I always thought it was far more difficult...
With his brother James Johnson Sweeney, former head of the Museum of Modern Art, Sweeney developed an early liking for painting. While he owns works by Bracque, Picasso, Leger, and Gris, he protests, in his self-effacing manner, that "I know nothing about aesthetics as a professional discipline or as a philosophical study. But the experience," he continues, "of making a judgment and enjoying a painting in the Fogg--or reading a poem--has been a vital part of my education...
...changed the title of Corpus hipercubus to The Crucifixion because "it is easier to understand." As it put its new Dali on public view, the Met rated the work "an outstanding modern religious painting, very serious, with little surrealistic eccentricities." Said Dali, "Juan Gris created beautiful cubism and Picasso continued it. Now myself has created one complete hypercubist painting...