A Visit to Picasso

Name: A Visit to Picasso
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1950-08-20
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Pablo Picasso, Gérard Philipe, Frank Silvera

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1950

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21 min

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Documentary

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In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when the Spanish painter drew on large glass plates in front of the camera – like a live show of a greatest artist in performing a few masterstrokes that outlines a dove, bull, flower, man or woman and whatnot. (This technique of filming his painting from the other side of the glass plates precedes The Mystery of Picasso (1956), another famous documentary film on Picasso). (via http://www.kubrickians.com/2012/07/08/visite-picasso-1949-paul-haesaert/)

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art

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Pablo Picasso

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Gérard Philipe

Récitant / Narrator

Frank Silvera

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 5, 2025

7/10

For the first half of this documentary, we are guided through a rather fleeting chronology of the development of Picasso's styles of artists through this "Rose" period, his "Negro" works and then "Cubism" and that's all pretty routine stuff. Then, though, we visit his seaside French home in a pictur…

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