Juan Gris' 125th birthday: Google does a cubist doodle for the Spanish painter

To commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Spanish painter Juan Gris, the third Musketeer of Cubism (Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the other two) Google has painted a cubist doodle on its home page.

José Victoriano González, better known as Juan Gris (his pseudonym), was an important exponent of the second phase of cubism known as High Cubism and his dominant style was Synthetic Cubism.

The abstract art of Cubism was the last century's most revolutionary art movement.

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Google does an origami doodle for Akira Yoshizawa's 101st birthday

For the 101st birth anniversary of origami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa, Google has posted a paper folding doodle on its homepage.

Japanese artist Akira Yoshizawa (born March 14, 1911; died March 14, 2005) revived the ancient Japanese art of paper folding called origami. It was though Yoshizawa's efforts that the art became an international rage.

Because of his worldwide popularity Yoshizawa also served as a cultural ambassador of Japan and was honoured with Japan's Order of the Rising Sun in 1983.

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