The Mystery of Picasso
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Movie Reviews of The Mystery of Picasso
Movie Review: great documentary about a great artist
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw The Mystery of Picasso when I was a teenager. I was fascinated by it. Having watched it recently, I realize why. The film shows that Pablo Picasso was a master painter. In this film he paints on a glass so that you can see what he is doing as he does it. During the course of a painting Picasso changes course sometimes ending up with a different scene than the one he sketched out in the beginning. You get to see him create cubist paintings and also semi-realistic paintings. The director does a good job of capturing the painting skill of one of the greatest of twentieth century artists. If you are an artist you will really learn a lot from this documentary. If you are just interested in art, this film will give you a glimpse of the process behind its creation.Movie Review: I've finally seen A Picasso being created.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a remarkable, swift, simple, beautiful, profound, fun and candid vision of the blank canvas turning into A Picasso. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot does just enough to infuse himself and the documentary presence of film, allowing the master to riff a couple dozen times. Simply watching the images appear and then evolve is a treat, scored with music. Picasso too brings some of himself to the film, but the dialogue is minimal, again focusing on the images he creates.
This is a very memorable work. It could succeed in a classroom for elementary, high school or even college students. It could play on a loop at a party. An artist could play and rewind a particular sequence, perhaps wanting to copy Picasso's brilliance.
Great.
Movie Review: el gran Picasso
Summary: 5 Stars
Increible muestra del proceso creativo.
Es maravilloso como van surgiendo las diferentes cosas que plasma sobre los soportes, extrayendo de ellos infinidad de imagenes.
Picasso fue un artista fuera de serie, con una capacidad creativa asombrosa.
El rodaje del film fue un acierto mayusculo, pues captura el momento de la creacion dejandonos ver como aparece gradualmente la imagen y se compone la obra.
Es un ejemplo excelente para entender no solamente la obra de Picasso, sino tambien de los artistas que comenzaron a alejarse de la imagen mimetica para proponer nuevos lenguajes en la representacion visual.
Es un video que nunca se ve de la misma forma, siempre cambia y siempre aprendemos algo nuevo de el.
Movie Review: The Eye Molds the Canvas
Summary: 5 Stars
A Fabulous film showing how an artist- in this case Picasso- takes a blank sheet of paper or canvas and transforms it into a work of art. Thru a special process that lets the inks bleed thru to the wrong side of the canvas where a camera captures the developement of a drawing from the first placement of a brush stroke to the final completed drawing/painting. Sometimes it is truly amazing to see what comes forth from the humble beginnings. We also are able to follow the developement of paintings as well with the aide of stop motion photography. I wish I were an art teacher so I could share this with my students! An enjoyable film for anyone with an interest in art!Movie Review: Best with commentary tracks on
Summary: 5 Stars
Watch this with either of the two commentary tracks by art scholars and you will be even more rewarded than simply watching as Picasso transforms blank canvasses. Repeatedly, the artist takes risks that seem to wreck his work, but then recovers to reveal something even better. I learned a lot from the commentaries about how to watch Picasso create. Extremely enriching. Picasso is my favorite artist and I have read extensively about him and seen many of his most famed works in person in museums all over the US and in Paris and Barcelona. If you know Picasso, you will enjoy this 1955 film. The end features the voice of Picasso talking a bit with the filmmaker.