The Resume

(March 23, 1887-May 11, 1927)
Born in Madrid, Spain
Birth name was Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez
Cubist painter and sculptor
Paintings include 'Portrait of Picasso (1912), 'Guitar and Pipe' (1913), 'Fantomas' (1915), 'Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin' (1919), 'Harlequin with Guitar' (1919) and 'The Painter's Window' (1925)
Called the Third Musketeer of Cubism (with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque)

Why he might be annoying:

He left Spain for Paris to avoid military service.
He became such a Francophile he insisted that friends call him 'Jean' instead of 'Juan.'
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz said, 'He had a terrible inferiority complex.'

Why he might not be annoying:

Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were monochromatic, his paintings were brightly colored.
He delivered an influential lecture, 'On the Possibilities of Painting,' at the Sorbonne (1924).
He designed sets for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Painters
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 41]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [March] (Ranked: 3231887)
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I am a Spaniard
• I Died in 1927 (Ranked: 40)
• I Had Renal Failure
• Painters
• Profiles 32501-32750 (Ranked: 32554)
• Sculptors

Year In Review:

In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying