The Mystery of Picasso
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Movie Reviews of The Mystery of Picasso
Movie Review: Picasso fan must
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok so this DVD is a little strange. It's pretty much live action drawing by Picasso, if you're a big Picasso fan like me and intrigued by him, you've got to see this. It's all in french and is subtitled into english, but the narration/dialogue isn't needed.
It's great to watch Picasso's genius at work, not something that can be seen very often. For the price that it is you could probably rent it and enjoy it, but I bought it and love it.
Movie Review: The Mystery of Picasso
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great movie for anyone who has ever wondered how a real work of art is created. Watch as Pablo Picasso creates works in color, black and white, paint, and ink.
The only aspect of the film I did not enjoy was the soundtrack. It does not fit the action on screen and is sometimes unnecessarily loud.
Movie Review: For artists or Picasso fans only
Summary: 3 Stars
Historically worth watching to see a shirtless, smoking Picasso creating several spontaneous drawings and paintings on the fly. Starting from markers and moving up to oil paints the drawings and paintings vary from straight forward sketches to his more well known cubist style. Best if watched in fast forward. You still get the point but in half the time. The cover painting is shot in a ten minute span but actually took five hours for Picasso to paint. The cubist paintings are fascinating to watch as Picasso starts with a sketch and morphs it into cubism, seemingly adding and subtracting layers in a random fashion. Interesting but ultimatley boring. Most of the paintings are crap and this is coming from a huge Picasso fan. It makes sense that all twenty paintings were destroyed after the filming. A wonderful guide for a painter wanting to watch Picasso's creative process but possibly not very interesting to the casual viewer.Movie Review: Read this before you buy
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD was interesting. The ability of Picasso to look at the same concept in different ways was refreshing. However, my expectations were different considering the title of the feature and the picture on the cover. I had the impression that the DVD will include some sort of commentary by the artist himself revealing more about the thoughts that go on in his mind when he's in the process of painting.
Having said that, you get still to see some interesting order -or lack of it; depending on how you see it- of how Picasso paints different parts of the painting at one time and then revisit them repeatedly to complete the painting. I guess you can say he demonstrated his thoughts rather than narrating them, but that narration would've really pushed it to a solid 5 out 5.
Movie Review: Kind of boring
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this hoping to glean something from Picasso's work process to use in my own creativity process. All I can see is a man drawing . . and drawing . . and drawing. Maybe that's the whole point - that greatness is achieved not through some "magic" but by dedication, insight and practice, practice, practice.
That's great but I haven't watched the whole DVD because I am truly bored.