Word: gris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large degree, the still life became his world. He painted musical instruments-objects that come alive at the touch-with such loving care that Juan Gris called the guitar Braque's "new madonna." Braque liked to be able to feel these objects; but in a larger sense, the objects were also as intangible as the themes of a symphony. "I try to make the object lose its usual function." he said. "It is only then that it acquires the quality of universality...
...fell under the spell of Cezanne, later said that it took him all of three years to shake it. Some of his early canvases look vaguely like the work of Braque or Gris, but Léger was never to be a cubist. What interested him was not dissection but construction; while the cubists shattered the surface of reality and the surrealists explored the world of dreams, Léger clung to the familiar objects and figures all about him, using them like brightly colored blocks to build his compositions...
Reviving a project drawn up in 1889, Moch's plan calls for a 2O.5-mile-long bridge, supported by 164 huge pilings, built straight from Cap Gris-Nez to South Foreland. A single railway would run along either side with a five-lane superhighway in between. Slung on girders over each side would be two lanes for bicycles and service vehicles. With a clearance of 164 ft., the bridge would be high enough at all points to allow most ships to pass under. It would rise at several points to a 230-ft. clearance to accommodate U.S. supercarriers...
...their cubist paintings, Picasso, Braque and Gris were proclaiming that the commonplace, placed smack before the eye. was something to be enjoyed on its own. But the cubists were not the only contributors. The futurists had focused attention on objects that caught the spirit of the age of speed and steel. The Dadaists fractured tradition by denying all standards-at least in theory-of beauty; the surrealists took it as their privilege "to put everything completely out of place," and the collagists pasted paper, cloth, and other materials into pictures...
...evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo in the car constructions of John Chamberlain. A painted Breakfast by Juan Gris plays parent to an assembled breakfast by Daniel Spoerri...