The Pot of Strawberry Jam by Juan Gris

The Pot of Strawberry Jam 1917

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collage, painting, oil-paint

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cubism

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collage

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painting

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oil-paint

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mixed mediaart

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abstract

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geometric

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urban art

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abstraction

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modernism

Copyright: Public Domain: Artvee

"The Pot of Strawberry Jam" by Juan Gris is a still life painting that messes with your mind, because he is thinking about artmaking as a process. The painting is a puzzle of shapes and colors. Gris uses browns and blacks as well as clear whites to define the objects, the paint is applied in thin layers so we can see the structure. The shapes are all fractured. Do you see the label ‘Fraises’ on the jam pot? It is fragmented, as if seen through a broken mirror. I think the way he does this with words makes it more interesting. Gris was inspired by his Cubist colleagues like Picasso and Braque. But I find Gris’ paintings more poetic somehow. It’s like he is not just breaking things apart, but also putting them back together again in a new, unexpected way. It's about embracing the unresolved and the in-between.

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