Look at the painting Guitar and Bottle by Juan Gris, created in 1921. Describe its artistic style and how this style reflects a social reaction to modernity during the period when it was made.

Juan Gris was one of the more famous cubist artists and his work is among most distinctive of the movement. His images are as crucial to this movement as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, whom he looked to for inspiration.

This painting reflects the industrial and modernist influences in the art that made a move towards more expressive and provoking pieces of the time. Cubism was a still innovative movement at the time, covering the gap from fine art that was previously considered the only real art.

We can notice this is still not a shattered cubist idea of reality, that can be seen at some later Picasso's work. It is rather done more like a collage, with distinguishable objects - glass, bottle. guitar, newspaper. fruit bowl. As society was still making the transition towards newer forms of art, this piece reflects that the bridge of experimenting which are still not as modernistic like surrealism, pop art, and other modern art movements are later going to be.