SYNTHESIS AND THE 'SYNTHETIC PROCESS' IN THE PAINTING OF JUAN GRIS 1915-19.

The article presents information on Juan Gris' paintings. After some time during 1914-1918 War, his work is seen as the product of a synthetic process, which begins with the manipulation of colored abstract shapes and ends with their adjustments. For Gris, 1915 was the worst year of the war, but his work continued as vigorously and as confidently as before. One of the problem in few of the paintings made by Gris is legibility. Of all the still-lives painted by Gris in early 1917, " Le Damier," has most convincingly the look of a work begun in abstraction.