Los dos pierrots juan gris biography
Inspired by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, he became a Cubist....
Juan Gris (March 23, , Madrid - May 11, , Boulogne-Billancourt) - an outstanding artist and sculptor from Spain. His real name is José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González Pérez: he subsequently replaced it with a more convenient and easy to remember nickname.
José was born into the family of a wealthy merchant and was the youngest of thirteen children. Interest and ability to painting showed up at a talented boy already at the age of seven years, around the same time his father’s financial affairs declined.
Juan Gris Spanish, – About this artwork.
Juan Gris had to help his family: he earned his first money selling his graphic works to local newspapers.
Gris received his primary education at the School of Industry, where he went to study at the insistence of his parents.
However, interest in art won, and he abandoned his studies for painting lessons. Juan's mentor was the famous portrait painter José Moreno Carbonero, the owner of a private school in Madrid. At the age of 19, the future master of cubism, the painter Juan