A Visit to Picasso

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Documentary
Director:Paul Haesaerts

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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Original TitleBezoek aan Picasso
StatusReleased
Release DateAugust 20, 1950
Release Dates
Italy:
Premiere - Aug 20, 1950
Runtime21dk
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Origin CountryNetherlands
Original LanguageDutch
Spoken LanguagesNederlands

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CinemaSerf7/10

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 picturesque village where he proceeds to paint, as if directly onto the screen, and it's astonishing to wa…

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