VILATÓ Javier
JAVIER VILATÓ (Barcelona, 1921-París, 2000).
Immersed since childhood in the world of Art, Javier Vilató, Picasso’s nephew (son of his sister Lola and Joan Baptista Vilató, a catalan neuropsychiatrist), in Paris deeply absorbed a new way of life and a new feeling about art that he proposed in its works, refusing the estabilished parameters, while searching for his own identity. If a characteristic marks the life and the art of Vilató, beyond his attraction for mediterranean light shown in the use of colors, it’s his interest, or rather, his look that reveals his surrounding, often very close to his intimacy. For this reason, Vilató was a great portrait painter during all his lifetime, until the last period in which he intensely worked in the sculptural portrait. His subjects are the beloved women, his sons, his friends as well as his dogs, his horses – animals he shared his house with – and even simple, daily objects; a choice reflecting his free, lively and pasionate point of view.
