Man in Cafe:

Still the days were beautiful when your Facebook  wall never used to get marred with all those frivolous posts from your friends. I remember the time of the day when I found a pic of the famous painting "Man in Cafe" by Juan Gris on my wall. Its still there in my mind because it was shared by a girl from my class on whom I used to have a secret crush.
Well, good old memories, as they always are. Now I am travelling back to  my city and its the time of dusk. The brightly burned sun is getting ready to dip in the arms of the horizon and I am listening to a beautiful love ballad. So you can get an idea of the bitter sweet mood I am in.
The moments when  you feel for someone are actually very momentary. For the rest of the time your life is etched by the factories, machines and the gears of the cities which keep on counting zeroes for you. And pardon me if I am wrong, its the most neo-realist existence of us. There is a subconscious vicissitude which forces art to evoke multiple emotions in the minds of the their viewers. And this amble is creatively syncopated with the likes and dislikes of our life.

Cubism  movement in art was its best in years of 1910-1914 and I personally feel Juan Gris' (one of the most prominent artists of that period) sudden shot to fame was because of his shear brilliance in analytic of this Cubism in his works. May be, explaining a few points from his painting, will be a good idea to show the depth of his works.

A few insights from his famous painting "Man in Cafe":

The face of the man is deliberately distorted in the picture so as to demystify the truth that face is the resemblance of one's identity. Another interpretation of the same is that human personalities are disjoint outcomes of incoherent idiosyncrasies. So all the pieces are purposefully made irregular and non-conforming.
There are lot many "not-so-visible" "structurally unrecognizable objects in the picture like the one, the man is holding in his hand, something that is there in the background just on the left hand side of the man's head, etc. The reason they are made inconspicuous is to emphasize on the point that objects which are there around us doesn't matter when it comes to construct the identity of a person. They shouts of their mere spacial existence  rather than shaping up the persona of him/her.
If you watch clearly, you will find there is no clear demarcation of the chair and the table from the body of the man. The reason widely accepted is that the chair is letting him to sit and the table for keeping the wine. Both are, in some way, adding to the comfort of the person and providing him a languid and  a relaxed mood. Thus the painter purposefully made the entities seamless with the body to make a point that sources of our perpetual happiness lies within the body.
And lastly the letters "PIC" and "AP" written on the left hand side of the shoulder of the man refers to Picasso and Apollinaire. Former being the proponent of Cubism and later, movement's prominent critic. Gris dedicated this painting to them.
So these are few of the interesting insights which this marvel gifts us!!!
For the rests, if you find any, please comment. It will be great, at least for me.
Thanks!