Coffee Grinder
1920
Juan Gris turns a simple kitchen table into a geometric puzzle in this 1920 masterpiece. You can spot a coffee grinder, a bottle of wine, and a glass, but they are flattened and stacked like cut-out paper shapes. This style, known as Synthetic Cubism, was all about building images up from simple forms rather than breaking them down. Gris was often called the 'intellectual' of the Cubist movement, famous for his rigorous, mathematical approach to composition. Notice the newspaper fragment 'LE J'—likely 'Le Journal'—grounding this abstract scene in the daily life of Paris.
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