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The Mystery of Picasso

starring: Pablo Picasso, Claude Renoir

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381057720
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 04, 2003
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 17827
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1956



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Description:
Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel. As he wields his brush, the painting dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th century, is making art, and famous French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) is making a movie. This entirely new kind of art documentary captures the moment and the mystery of creativity; for the film, the master created 20 artworks, ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to widescreen color paintings. Using inks that bled through the paper, Picasso rapidly created fanciful drawings that Clouzot was able to film from the reverse side, capturing their creation in real time. When the artist decided to paint in oils, the filmmaker switched to color film and employed the magic of stop-motion animation. By contract, almost all of these paintings were destroyed when the film was completed. Unavailable for more than a decade, 'The Mystery of Picasso' is exhilarating, mesmerizing, and unforgettable; it is simply one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made. The French government agrees; in 1984 it declared the film a national treasure.

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Just as visual artists understand the relationship between positive and negative space in their work, France's master filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique) understood--and set about demonstrating via The Mystery of Picasso--the relationship between creation and destruction in the artistic process. In 1955, Clouzot teamed with his friend Pablo Picasso to capture as many aspects of the brilliant painter's working methods as possible. Clouzot innovatively placed the camera in front of Picasso while the latter worked, thus capturing astonishing reverse images of brush strokes and 'bleeding' inks in volatile motion. The result is that Clouzot's film--the screen, the frame--become Picasso's canvas, and we find ourselves inside his prodigious genius as works of beauty spontaneously burst forth and are instantly crushed beneath the weight of new images, new ideas. A viewer would be forgiven if, more than once, he felt like screaming at such nonchalant carnage. --Tom Keogh



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Picasso fan must
Ok so this DVD is a little strange. It's pretty much live action drawing by Picasso, if you're a ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great documentary about a great artist
I saw The Mystery of Picasso when I was a teenager. I was fascinated by it. Having watched it recently, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An one-of-a-kind look around the creative universe of Picasso!
"The mystery of Picasso" is one of these absorbing films that immediately engage you from the first shot. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Mystery of Picasso
This is a great movie for anyone who has ever wondered how a real work of art is created. Watch as Pablo ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - WOW! and WOW again!
This DVD is startling. It shows Picasso painting (by placing the camera behind the canvas). It shows him work ... Read More

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