1914, Juan Gris, Bottle of Rum and Newspaper -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: Like many cubist works, Gris's painting provides a revised experience of the everyday, whether in the studio or in a familiar café. Glimpsed letters confirm the positions of the two objects: UM for rum, JOUR (of 'journal') for the newspaper. A table is indicated by the false wood-graining, a house-painter's skill much admired by the cubists because it is identifiably an illusion. Gris interweaves these fragmentary images of the familiar into a complex, carefully balanced structure.
1914, Juan Gris, Bottle of Rum and Newspaper -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: Like many cubist works, Gris's painting provides a revised experience of the everyday, whether in the studio or in a familiar café. Glimpsed letters confirm the positions of the two objects: UM for rum, JOUR (of 'journal') for the newspaper. A table is indicated by the false wood-graining, a house-painter's skill much admired by the cubists because it is identifiably an illusion. Gris interweaves these fragmentary images of the familiar into a complex, carefully balanced structure.