The Guitar Player

We see the woman up against the light coming in through the window behind her. The clear blue colour blinds our eyes and casts the room into a gloom. Through the window we see mountains whose shadow side seeps imperceptibly into the room, becoming part of the woman's round curves. The mountains and the woman become one. She becomes as one with the guitar and the table behind her. Background becomes foreground and shadow becomes light in a painting where time has ceased to exist as a linear phenomenon. Like other Cubists Juan Gris was inspired by the philosopher André Bergson's new concept of time. As far as those who painted were concerned, the con cept marked a break with the view that time and space should be organised in keeping with the math ematical and geometric principles that govern per spective. There is no longer just a single vanishing point. Planes and shapes each have their separate eye point, and if one were to continue the lines one would not simply find a single main vanishing point and a single horizon, but many.