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Fran莽oise Gilot: Shaping Freedom Through Abstraction
Fran莽oise Gilot established a life-long career as a painter and printmaker through a distinct, intuitive style inspired by her memories and the subconscious. She emerged as an artist in the 1940s and spent much of her career in France. After 1970, she began working in the United States as well. Gilot鈥檚 surroundings often affected her work, and the transatlantic move inspired an artistic freedom in her process, aesthetic, and subject matter.
Gilot refused to be limited within her craft, and so she continually challenged herself. Her creative output included paintings, drawings, lithographs, monotypes, mixed media, and costumes. These various mediums offered countless outlets to explore her visual vocabulary.
Her compositions depicting familiar figures and objects of the everyday elicit a dynamism through the way she manipulates line, space, form, and color. Her mastery of these formal design elements combined with her various subject matter allowed for myriad ways to process and express her perspective.
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Fran莽oise Gilot established a life-long career as a painter and printmaker through a distinct, intuitive style inspired by her memories and the subconscious. She emerged as an artist in the 1940s and spent much of her career in France. After 1970, she began working in the United States as well. Gilot鈥檚 surroundings often affected her work, and the transatlantic move inspired an artistic freedom in her process, aesthetic, and subject matter.
Gilot refused to be limited within her craft, and so she continually challenged herself. Her creative output included paintings, drawings, lithographs, monotypes, mixed media, and costumes. These various mediums offered countless outlets to explore her visual vocabulary.
Her compositions depicting familiar figures and objects of the everyday elicit a dynamism through the way she manipulates line, space, form, and color. Her mastery of these formal design elements combined with her various subject matter allowed for myriad ways to process and express her perspective.
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