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The style originally pioneered by Picasso and Georges Braque is often described as 'Analytic Cubism', because it involved 'analysing' (or at least breaking up) objects into their geometric components. It was superseded between 1912 and 1915 by 'Synthetic Cubism', in which the artists (joined by Picasso's fellow-Spainiard, Juan Gris) are said to have reversed the process, building up a recognizable image from abstract elements. Putting these technical distinctions aside, it became clear in a work such as Violin and Grapes that more varied and lively colour was creeping back into Picasso's work. So were images of the real world, though reassembled with a playful inventiveness which became one of the artist's enduring characteristics.
Coincidentally or otherwise, the changes coincided with new developments in Picasso's personal life: Fernande had left him in 1911, and shortly afterwards he fell in love with Marcelle Humbert, whom he called 'Eva'.
Picasso's fondness for the guitar as an artistic subject probaly owes less to his Spanishness than to its sensuous plasticity, and in particular to its distinctly feminine contours.
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