Françoise Gilot

Gilot describe de manera minuciosa -e implacable- todos los aspectos de la creación artística de este gran hombre, desbordante de ideas, de imaginación y de impulsos contradictorios, de cuyo retrato emergen los aspectos menos conocidos del artista: el compañero de diario, el ser irascible, el partisano, el padre angustiado o el creador supersticioso.

Le peintre est un regard, la peinture est son masque, et lui permet de scruter son univers intérieur aussi bien que lespace visible. Le pouvoir créateur est la source de toute activité dirigée vers lavenir. Dans un monde qui parait plus que jamais changeant, lartiste, qui na pas perdu le don denfance, savance dans linconnu. En utilisant des souvenirs de jeunesse, des reves et des jeux, luvre dautres artistes, aussi bien que son experience personnelle, Françoise Gilot cherche a impliquer le lecteur dans la quete des motifs, conscients ou inconscients, qui conduisent a la production dune uvre et la rendent signifiante, emouvante. Ainsi, le livre secrit et se construit en face du lecteur- la composition est une experience, loin detre un objet fini et pret pour la consommation, cest un projet qui demande, de la part du lecteur, une complicite et un certain degre de participation. Françoise Gilot croit profondement que lart, bien loin detre le plaisir raffine dune elite, est dune importance essentielle dans chaque vie humaine, et permet lepanouissement de toutes les facultes. Partant dune experience particuliere de la creation artistique, elle invite le lecteur a participer a une demarche enrichissante.

Le peintre est un regard, la peinture est son masque, et lui permet de scruter son univers intérieur aussi bien que lespace visible. Le pouvoir créateur est la source de toute activité dirigée vers lavenir. Dans un monde qui parait plus que jamais changeant, lartiste, qui na pas perdu le don denfance, savance dans linconnu. En utilisant des souvenirs de jeunesse, des reves et des jeux, luvre dautres artistes, aussi bien que son experience personnelle, Françoise Gilot cherche a impliquer le lecteur dans la quete des motifs, conscients ou inconscients, qui conduisent a la production dune uvre et la rendent signifiante, emouvante. Ainsi, le livre secrit et se construit en face du lecteur- la composition est une experience, loin detre un objet fini et pret pour la consommation, cest un projet qui demande, de la part du lecteur, une complicite et un certain degre de participation. Françoise Gilot croit profondement que lart, bien loin detre le plaisir raffine dune elite, est dune importance essentielle dans chaque vie humaine, et permet lepanouissement de toutes les facultes. Partant dune experience particuliere de la creation artistique, elle invite le lecteur a participer a une demarche enrichissante.

Françoise Gilots candid memoir remains one of the most illuminating [books] weve had on the mind and spirit of Picassoand gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times).Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picassos two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picassos muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.Life with Picasso is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.

A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive womenone American and one Frenchon the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, and their views on love, style, self-invention, feminism, and child rearing. They also discuss the creative impulse and the importance of art as they ponder what it means to be a woman.

Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picassos two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picassos muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.