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Pedro by George Luks, 1920
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
He'd been a newspaper cartoonist and a barroom brawler who liked to claim he'd once boxed under a made-up name. He ran with the painters who got called the Ashcan School — supposedly as an insult — for picking ordinary city people over polite subjects.
Erisava: He looks more bored of us than we could ever be of him.
Still Life with a Guitar by Juan Gris, 1913
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Apparently the wood-grain pattern here is painted, not real wood or glued paper — Gris copying the collage tricks other Cubists were doing with actual materials, just with a brush. The guitar and the newspaper masthead show up together a lot in this circle's still lifes.
Erisava: Is there actually a guitar hiding in this mess, or not?