Life with Picasso
Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and 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 Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s 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.« Less
Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and 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 Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s 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. |
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About the author (2019)
Françoise Gilot is a French painter, critic, and writer. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, she began writing and painting at a young age. In 1938, she graduated from the Sorbonne with a BA in philosophy and in 1939 from Cambridge University with a degree in English. In 1943, when Gilot was twenty-one, she met Pablo Picasso, who was sixty-one, and theyhad two children, Claude and Paloma. Their relationship lasted ten years, and Gilot published the bestselling Life with Picasso eleven years after their separation. In 1970, she married Jonas Salk, who pioneered the polio vaccine, and they remained married until his death in 1995. Gilot lives in Paris and New York, works on behalf of the Salk Institute in California, and continues to exhibit her work internationally.
Carlton Lake (1915–2006) was an art critic and collector, and the Paris art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. He contributed essays, short stories, and conversations with Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Henry Moore, and Giacometti to several publications. He donated his vast collection of art—350,000 French literary materials—to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin, where Lake was once the director and where the items can still be viewed today.
Lisa Alther is the author of six novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and the book About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter, co-authored with Françoise Gilot. She lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Françoise Gilot is a French painter, critic, and writer. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, she began writing and painting at a young age. In 1938, she graduated from the Sorbonne with a BA in philosophy and in 1939 from Cambridge University with a degree in English. In 1943, when Gilot was twenty-one, she met Pablo Picasso, who was sixty-one, and theyhad two children, Claude and Paloma. Their relationship lasted ten years, and Gilot published the bestselling Life with Picasso eleven years after their separation. In 1970, she married Jonas Salk, who pioneered the polio vaccine, and they remained married until his death in 1995. Gilot lives in Paris and New York, works on behalf of the Salk Institute in California, and continues to exhibit her work internationally.
Carlton Lake (1915–2006) was an art critic and collector, and the Paris art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. He contributed essays, short stories, and conversations with Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Henry Moore, and Giacometti to several publications. He donated his vast collection of art—350,000 French literary materials—to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin, where Lake was once the director and where the items can still be viewed today.
Lisa Alther is the author of six novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and the book About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter, co-authored with Françoise Gilot. She lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Carlton Lake (1915–2006) was an art critic and collector, and the Paris art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. He contributed essays, short stories, and conversations with Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Henry Moore, and Giacometti to several publications. He donated his vast collection of art—350,000 French literary materials—to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin, where Lake was once the director and where the items can still be viewed today.
Lisa Alther is the author of six novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and the book About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter, co-authored with Françoise Gilot. She lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.
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Title Life with Picasso Authors Françoise Gilot, Carlton Lake Contributor Lisa Alther Publisher New York Review of Books, 2019 ISBN 1681373203, 9781681373201 Length 384 pages Subjects › ›
Art / Individual Artists / Essays
Art / Movements / Modernism
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| Title | Life with Picasso |
| Authors | Françoise Gilot, Carlton Lake |
| Contributor | Lisa Alther |
| Publisher | New York Review of Books, 2019 |
| ISBN | 1681373203, 9781681373201 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Individual Artists / Essays Art / Movements / Modernism Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers |
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弗朗索瓦絲·吉洛，《卡爾頓湖》
《紐約書評》，2019年6月11日 - 傳記與自傳 - 384頁
弗朗索瓦絲·吉洛坦誠的回憶錄被《洛杉磯時報》譽為“迄今為止我們所讀到的關於畢加索思想和精神的最具啟發性的書籍之一”，並為我們深入了解兩位現代藝術家共同經歷的充滿激情和創造力的生活提供了引人入勝的視角。
1943年，二十出頭的弗朗索瓦絲·吉洛遇到了61歲的巴勃羅·畢卡索。她出身於一個富裕的中上家庭，父母送她到劍橋大學和索邦大學深造，並希望她將來從事法律工作。然而，這位年輕女子違背了父母的意願，立志成為藝術家。她與畢卡索的相識開啟了一段友誼、一段戀情，以及長達十年的伴侶關係。在這十年間，吉洛為畢卡索生下了兩個孩子，帕洛瑪和克勞德。吉洛是畢卡索的繆斯之一；她也是一位非常獨立自主的女性，決心成為她最終成為的那位傑出的畫家。
《與畢卡索的生活》講述了畢卡索作為藝術家和作為普通人的雙重生活。我們聽到他談論繪畫和雕塑，談論他的生活、他的事業，以及其他藝術家，包括同時代人和古典大師。我們得以窺見畢卡索多變的情緒：他時而對自己的作品不屑一顧，時而為之欣喜若狂，沉浸於各種迷信之中，時而又是一位焦慮的父親。但《與畢卡索的生活》不僅僅是一位偉大藝術家在其聲名鼎盛時期的肖像；它也描繪了一位才華橫溢、聰穎過人的年輕女性在其輝煌事業的開端。
巨匠与情人
Françoise Gilot(1921 – 2023) . Life with Picasso (with Carlton Lake， 1964), 台灣有譯本《畢加索的情與藝》台北：東方，1967。 The Legacy of Jonas Salk / Françoise Gilot. Françoise Gilot on Henri Matisse 後來幾位/半打藝術史家都出手寫/出版90年代初，讀了Françoise Gilot著的： Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, Doubleday, 1990, New York: Anchor Books, 1992,覺得應該翻譯
1973年畢卡索去世後，他的伴侶弗朗索瓦絲·吉洛（Françoise Gilot，1943年至1953年間的伴侶）[4]，也是他兩個孩子克勞德和帕洛瑪的母親[5]，與杰奎琳就畢加索遺產的分配問題發生爭執。吉洛和她的孩子們先前曾以畢卡索患有精神疾病為由對遺囑提出異議，但最終敗訴。傑奎琳阻止克勞德和帕洛瑪參加畢卡索的葬禮。 [6] 最終，雙方同意在巴黎建立畢卡索博物館。 [3]
1964年，在他們分居11年後，吉洛與藝術評論家卡爾頓·萊克合著了《與畢卡索的生活》，這本書被翻譯成數十種語言，銷量超過百萬冊，儘管畢卡索曾試圖通過法律手段阻止其出版，但最終失敗。此後，畢卡索拒絕再見克勞德和帕洛瑪。 [28][29] 該書的所有收益都用於幫助克勞德和帕洛瑪提起訴訟，爭取成為畢卡索的合法繼承人。 [30]
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110 名 Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot
In 1964, 11 years after their separation, Gilot wrote Life with Picasso (with the art critic Carlton Lake), a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages, despite an unsuccessful legal challenge from Picasso attempting to stop its publication. From then on, Picasso refused to see Claude or Paloma again.[28][29] All the profits from the book were used to help Claude and Paloma mount a case to become Picasso's legal heirs.[30]
2015
懂得英語和一點點疫苗學的人，或值得花64分鐘聽聽這訪談：作者花十年的功夫寫這本"全面"的傳記，包括J. SALK 的心智、理想、科學圈、個人生活、婚姻....."美不勝收".....據說YouTube也有這訪談，推！
"Everyone ought to draw from Nigeria’s experience, which showed that battling polio is not only about the vaccinations but also about waging a complex war of logistics and, ultimately, winning over the hearts and minds of people."
Now more than ever, the battle against polio turns to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
懂得英語和一點點疫苗學的人，或值得花64分鐘聽聽這訪談：作者花十年的功夫寫這本"全面"的傳記，包括J. SALK 的心智、理想、科學圈、個人生活、婚姻....."美不勝收".....據說YouTube也有這訪談，推！
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
喬納斯·愛德華·索爾克（英語：Jonas Edward Salk，又譯為約納斯·沙克，1914年10月28日－1995年6月23日），美國實驗醫學家、病毒學家，主要以發現和製造出首例安全有效的「脊髓灰質炎/小兒麻痺疫苗」而知名。他出生在紐約的一個俄裔德系猶太移民家庭。雖然他的父母沒有受過多少正式教育，但他們決心讓兒子獲得成功。索爾克在紐約大學醫學院時就十分成功，但後來他選擇做實驗醫學家，而不是當一名醫生。
Wed, Aug 19 2015 - 6:30pm The Legacy of Jonas Salk Janet Napolitano, President of University of California; Former Secretary of Homeland Security; Former Governor of Arizona Charlotte Jacobs, M.D.
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後來幾位/半打藝術史家都出手寫/出版
90年代初，讀了Françoise Gilot著的： Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, Doubleday, 1990, New York: Anchor Books, 1992,覺得應該翻譯。不過我當時是某公司小主管，當然不可能。2015.8.22 聽了此訪談，才知道Gilot女士的"婚事：
In 1969, Gilot was introduced to Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine pioneer,[14] at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, California. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and they were married in 1970 in Paris.[15] They remained married until Salk's death in 1995. During her marriage, she continued painting in New York, La Jolla, and Paris.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Gilot
看過的展覽不計其數，能讓我念念不忘的卻不多，2002年在倫敦Tate看到的Matisse Picasso exhibition，絕對是其中之一。那是把兩個藝術天才在20世紀的前半段裡，如何在創作上亦敵亦友的互動與激勵，透過一組一組對照般的展出，讓我們瞭解他們是如何透過一路觀看對方的創作突破，思考、回應並創作自己的新作品。
兩人1906在巴黎初次相遇，當時出道不久的畢卡索24歲，已然盛名確立的馬蒂斯36歲，自此開啟兩人間瑜亮情結般的精彩創作關係。畢卡索曾說：「沒有人會比我更認真地觀看馬蒂斯的繪畫，也沒有人會比馬蒂斯更認真閱讀我的創作的。」
也許是年歲關係，我過往傾向認同畢卡索的繪畫，現在則是更喜歡馬蒂斯的風格。兩人猶如20世紀繪畫界的雙鼎，一個奔放外露、一個內斂省思，皆是令人讚嘆不已的傑出者，也由於他們的精彩成果，更確立20世紀前期藝術的輝煌與不朽。
