Post by Jerome Rumol' on Jul 15, 2013 16:28:01 GMT
I'm sure everyone has seen a painting by Picasso ? And when you're looking at, after all kind of feelings, you've probably asked yourself "But, how did he create that ! What was the beginning, how did he treat his basic idea ?"
Well, Henri-George Cluzot, best known his films noirs, that I recommended by the way (The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), Quai des Orfèvres (1947), and Les Diaboliques (1954)), decided in 1956 to film Picasso during his creating process. In this documentary, "The Mystery of Picasso", the camera is juste behind the canvas, and thanks to a new kind of paint, we could see the process by "transparency". If we could see it, we can't really hear him. Picasso is for sure a great painter, but he is not really talkative when he's painting. We just have our mind to understand what the hell he is doing. But, actually, we don't care because we are caught up by his curves, colors and collages.
1h40 later, it's like the end of a dream.
Fun fact, because he is Picasso and he could create easily, paintings were subsequently destroyed so that they would only exist on film, though some may have survived.
Well, Henri-George Cluzot, best known his films noirs, that I recommended by the way (The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), Quai des Orfèvres (1947), and Les Diaboliques (1954)), decided in 1956 to film Picasso during his creating process. In this documentary, "The Mystery of Picasso", the camera is juste behind the canvas, and thanks to a new kind of paint, we could see the process by "transparency". If we could see it, we can't really hear him. Picasso is for sure a great painter, but he is not really talkative when he's painting. We just have our mind to understand what the hell he is doing. But, actually, we don't care because we are caught up by his curves, colors and collages.
1h40 later, it's like the end of a dream.
Fun fact, because he is Picasso and he could create easily, paintings were subsequently destroyed so that they would only exist on film, though some may have survived.