Art-O-Gram: Picasso-the artist, life and love-scene 6

Picasso's life and his loved ones - especially in relation to Picasso's relationship with and to women an endless topic, on which serious artists and excited feminists, outraged petty bourgeois and imaginative cookbook authors, confused social scientists and envious boulevard journalists from probably every conceivable viewing angle.

The artist lifestyle and his relationships with women have already been dissected thoroughly enough, and it is probably not that important who shares why and which bed. Nevertheless, a overall view of Picasso does not quite avoid taking a look at his lifestyle and love - both are puzzle parts of the "People Picassos" , both also influenced his art.

Therefore, a sketch in 7 scenes follows the private side of the artist - an intensely lived life.

Scene 6: There is another way

Eight years of dispute over a man - led by a more gentle Marie - Thérèse Walter and a Dora Maar , which the decisive opposite is claimed - probably tires more than he would like to admit, even if he is secretly masked. Perhaps the man who the loved ones consume will just be a little boring in between?

In any case, Picasso finally ended this game without a winner, very Picasso-Like, by turning the next woman. While two still argued, the third - and Picasso was happy for the time being because he couldn't have guessed that this time he would not be the overpowering in the relationship.

this is assumed in Picasso in his most relationships as well as his tendency to want to have a superiority, nobody has yet asked whether Picasso did not want to just live with a woman who had grown all around. Anyway, in Francoise Gilot he had found this woman how it turns out:

1943 (1946) - 1953 Francoise Gilot - The woman who survives Picasso

The painter Francoise Gilot met Picasso at the age of 21, in the area of ​​her first successful exhibition. That was in May 1943, Picasso was 61 at the time and at the level of his fame and experience.

For the expectant painter, who had just divided her family for life as an artist, a man with considerable attraction.

At least between 1943 and 1946 they became a couple, Picasso separated from Dora Maar for Francoise Gilot. Francoise Gilot also moved in with him at some point during this time, or she accompanied him on his travels.

From the beginning of the German occupation in 1940 to the liberation of the city on August 25, 1944, Picasso stuck in his studio with a ban on exhibition in Paris, which was also used as an apartment, and now wanted to travel.

Southern France was often the destination where Picasso's friend and close confidante Henry Matisse was, from 1948 both lived in the villa "La Galloise" in Vallauris, southern France. There is a legendary beach picture from this year (and not, as indicated in the link below, from 1951): Francoise is laughing on the beach of Golfe-Juan, the also good-humored Picasso follows her and keeps a parasol over you, as a third, obviously enjoying the beach and the summer, which is visibly enjoying in the background Javier Vilato, Picasso Nephew (son of Picassos sister Dolores).

This pleased scene was photographed by Robert Capa , who was actually unforgettable as a war photographer, who was also a very talented photographer of people and her behavior.

Picasso has also taken Francoise Gilot on the subject of countless pictures, as diverse as Dora Maar, but overall lighter, friendlier. This is shown above all by the pictures "Woman-Flower" from 1946 and a much more relaxed and pleasant "Femme dans un fitty (Françoise Gilot)" from 1946, when even the loved one was portrayed by Eva Gouel von Picasso.

After Francoise Gilot gave birth to son Claude and daughter Paloma in 1949 in 1949, Picasso painted even more friendly pictures of the mother and the children together, e.g. B. "Claude et Paloma Jouant" from 1950, "Francoise, Claude and Paloma" from 1951 and "Francoise Gilot with Claude and Paloma" from the same year.

Francoise Gilot had hit her artistic career against her father's will, who wanted to see her as a lawyer. In 1943 she had resigned from studying law and told her father that she was determined to become a painter. As a result of the subsequent dispute, she had fled from home and moved in with her grandmother's maternal side, which had always been attached to her, the father hired all support.

In the years with Picasso, Francoise Gilot had also developed artistically, in 1951, when her beloved grandmother died and she reconciled with her father, she had made a completely new series of work, in 1952 she was able to stock single exhibition in the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris in 1952 .

The exhibition was well received by criticism and audience, one of the pictures was even sold to the French National Museum, after which Gilot were offered contracts with galleries in New York and London. Picasso had not visited the opening of the exhibition, he stated that Francoise Gilot does not want to steal attention, and he already knows all the pictures.

The character of the relationship between Gilot and Picassos had changed lately anyway, the relationship with him has been limited and increasingly unbearable for Francoise Gilot. His mood is said to have been more than explosive, his behavior distances, Francoise Gilot had increasingly withdrawn from Picasso towards himself and was all the more concerned with her work and the children.

Encouraged by the success of the exhibition, Francoise Gilot made larger pictures, their color scheme developed and their motifs became more ambitious. On the same train, she distanced herself emotionally from Picasso.

At the beginning of 1953, she felt increasingly suffocated by his dominant attitude and his refusal to recognize her longing for some independence, in the period until the summer she saw her relationship with Picasso irreparably destroyed and decided to go her own way.

At the end of September 1953, Gilot left Picasso in Vallauris and permanently moved to her Paris apartment with the children Claude and Paloma. Picasso followed her, but drove back to the Mediterranean after two weeks, Francoise Gilot became the only woman who left Picasso on her own decision.

Francoise Gilot initially married the painter and actor Luc Simon in 1955, from whom she separated in 1961, and then married Jonas Salk (discoverer of the polio vaccine) in 1970, the marriage lasted until his death in 1995.

And she continued to work as an artist; Francoise Gilot today has studios in New York and Paris Montmartre , and she not only survived her relationship with Picasso quite well, but has actually survived Picasso for a good 40 years at the moment. Francoise Gilot is now over 90 years old, she should still stand in her studio every day and paint, you can get an overview of her beautiful pictures on your official website www.francoiseegilot.com .

In an article written in English in the Vogue magazine , you can read how to live on after a life with a personality like Picasso. To live on very successfully, with two marriages and another child, two books sold as bestsellers, lectures on the Tate and a career as an artist that is still active with over 90 years (source: Vogue.com) .

Francoise Gilot Live can be seen on YouTube , in 2013 she talks about her own career and her way of approaching art:

... and on June 6, 2014, at the age of 92, about her artistic idol Henri Matisse:

Francoise Gilot was 93 years old on November 26, 2014, the extraordinary clarity of her lecture and her liveliness in the video from June of this year suggest that she is also enjoying this birthday full of life and the best of health.

This article will appear at the time of your birthday-if you want to congratulate you, can be found at www.francoiseegilot.com/frames.html , menu item "Correspond" an email form for messages.

The only suitable Picasso quote about his love for Francoise Gilot:

I never understood why women on talented men first see their mistakes and their merits in fools. ”

It may only fit Francoise Gilot because we do not know which of his women Picasso this remark, and it may only fit into life, because Picasso with this view - in any case in the generalization - is simply injustice: there are very many women who recognize very well what talented men are doing - there is a clear deficiency (then and now) more in the opposite direction.

More about Picasso's "remaining life" and his art can be read in the following articles: "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-a long life for art" (overview), "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-born artist" (training), "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-an artist and three wars" lived 28 years with war around), "Art-O-Gram: Picasso- Famous art and her secret "(no, you can not ventilate it completely), and in the " Art-O-Gramm: "Picasso-a guarantee for top ranking" and in the "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso today" it is about the artist's huge traces to the present day.