Colori Abstract Challenge: week 4

When creating your abstract piece this week… you can take inspiration from…

The color palette: Pistachio, Pea, Warm Pink, Elephant Grey

The featured shape: plus sign

The featured artist: Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was an accomplished artist, notably in ​watercolors​ and ​ceramics​, and a bestselling memoirist of the controversial Life with Picasso.

Gilot’s artwork is showcased in more than a dozen leading museums including the permanent collection of the ​Metropolitan Museum of Art​ in New York and the ​Centre Pompidou​ in Paris. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at ​Sotheby’s​ in London.

Gilot first made her mark in the post-War milieu of artists who redefined the European artistic landscape; her career then went on to span an impressive eight decades. Delving into the realms of mythology, symbolism, and the power of memory, Gilot’s work explores complex philosophical ideas with spontaneity and freedom.

Gilot is also known for her romantic partnership with ​Pablo Picasso​ as well as marriage to ​Jonas Salk​, the American researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine.

In an interview questioning how she came to be with two of the most influential men in the world, Gilot responded, “Lions mate with lions.”