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Virtual Brettell Lecture: Decoding Juan Gris


Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. CST


Among the small group of artists who invented Cubism in Paris in the early years of the 20th century, Juan Gris stands out for his faithfulness to that style, which he never left, and for his singular commitment to the genre of still life. And yet he was no conservative. Digging deep allowed him to explore ideas about representation, color, structure, language, and materials that were arguably as radical as any of those put forth by Picasso, Braque, or Léger. This lecture by Harry Cooper, from the National Gallery of Art, will be both an introduction to Gris’s art and an argument for its continuing relevance as one of the most challenging modern visions of what painting could be.


Following the talk, Nicole Myers, The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art at the DMA, will join Cooper for a live Q&A.


This talk is part of the Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series, endowed by Carolyn and Roger Horchow in honor of former DMA Director, and Founding Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, Rick Brettell.