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Title: Life with Picasso by FRANCOISE GILOT ISBN: 0-385-26186-1 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 26 May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you have interest in Picasso's techniques read this book
Comment: Gilot's representation of her time with Picasso is obviously the product of in depth journals. The potrayal of his monologues and mannerisms are detailed to a very fine degree. Overlooked, by the majority of reviewers of this work, is her painstaking detail into his artistic process. The level of detail she provides regarding the techniques Picasso used eclipses any other Picasso biography. Gilot documented his work with oils, sculpture, etching and many other mediums. Always the focus of reviews are Picasso as the great abuser, the great manipulator. Focus always seems to placed on the physcological aspects of his art, his life and their relationship. Seldom is the emphasis placed on the technical nature of this work. It is a large portion on this book. It is what really makes it worth the read...
Rating: 5
Summary: Great perspective, from a person who knew first hand.
Comment: The best book on Picasso I have read. Francoise Gilot, wife to Picasso and a painter, writes possibly with better insight than Picasso himself could, and certainly any other "outside of the circle" biographer could, about Picasso's manner of painting, his personality and lifestyle, his motivations and a good part of his life. Excellent, excellent book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Life of Devastation
Comment: Picasso has always fascinated me. I've always been curious about knowing what and who was behind those piercing black eyes that could freeze you in your own tracks; that man who thought women came only in two forms: either goddesses or doormats. Gilot's book of milestones succeeded at imparting some of his secrets - how she met him, loved him, and eventually was consumed by his larger-than-life and boisterous temperament; how he treated "his" women, his children, and friends; how he thought of and expressed his take on life; how he hated the words "like" and "appreciate" and preferred to either love or hate; how his whole existence fed and was borne on his art. Picasso, the labyrinth, and as throroughly drawn by Gilot, was a man who flirted with life by his own very terms and a take-it-or-leave-it attitude that ridiculed the very essence of it. A far cry from mild and an artist who flew in the face of the common, he never hoped to do; he did. He never waited to be given; he took. He was the god of his own self, and by the same token acted as if he had been the god of all. Gilot knew how to play his game, at least sometimes, but could never bring him closer to "normalcy." His genius overwhelmed his surroundings just as much as it had overwhelmed Picasso himself.
The book is very well-written. Incidents and moments do not follow a chronological sequence; rather, they are told as she remembers them. She interjects her memories with her own impressions and epiphanies; how she felt at the time is juxtaposed with how she felt as she was writing the book, which was first published in 1964. Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Matisse, Braque, Cocteau, Max Jacob, Eluard, Miro, Modigliani, Goya, Giacometti, and many other lofty figures whose lives were intimately intertwined with Picasso's are narrated in an accentuated mood of writing. It's a very interesting book if one was interested in that Golden Age of aesthetic and thought schools like the Blue Period, Cubism, Socialist Realism, and how Picasso had lived through it all. It points out his most absorbing canvasses and expressively conveys how, when, and where each had been conceived and later fathered by him. I personally don't believe in formalism or the notion that art is self-contained or self-referential; there is a whole life out there, or rather "in" there, that crystallizes its point of departure thereby meditating its own maker.
I loved this book not only for its author's elegance and depth, but also because of the breadth of her enfolded experiences, her bare feelings, and the intricacy of that snow-in-summer intimacy she had with that ferocious and insatiable matador of a human nature called Picasso. A monster, yes. And a genius who believed in passion as the only rule worth living by, and for.
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Title: Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier by Fernande Olivier ISBN: 0810942518 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Huffington Stassinopoulos, Arianna Huffington ISBN: 0671454463 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar by Mary Ann Caws ISBN: 0821226932 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 25 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Picasso by Brassai, University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226071499 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Picasso and Dora : A Memoir by James Lord ISBN: 0374528357 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 31 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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