Gris, Juan, grees, hwahn (1887-1927), a Spanish-born painter, made important contributions to the modern style of painting called cubism. The objects in his paintings and collages are more clearly defined and richly colored than those in the works of the earlier cubists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. His attention to the object in his compositions and more typically Spanish hues link his work to the Spanish still-life tradition. Gris once called his work "flat, colored architecture." His version of cubism became known as synthetic cubism.