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The Mystery of Picasso: Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Claude Renoir. A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 1956-05-18
The Mystery of Picasso ( French: Le mystère Picasso) is a 1956 French documentary film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. In it, the painter Pablo Picasso produces 20 drawings and paintings, at first using inks that bleed through the paper on which he is drawing, with the act of creation filmed in real-time from the backside of the easel, and ...
Pablo Picasso's art emerges in front of our eyes in this remarkable 1956 film by the French master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. The Mystery of Picasso (in French Le Mystère Picasso) is a unique collaboration between filmmaker and painter.
"The Mystery of Picasso is a 1956 film, made by Henri-Georges Clouzot.It aims to unravel Picasso’s process of painting and of artistic production of metaphys...
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Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot • 1956 • France. Starring Pablo Picasso. In 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot joined forces with his friend Pablo Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film, “a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity.”
Twenty years later, Henri-Georges Clouzot accomplished just what Picasso had envisioned when he directed The Mystery of Picasso (1956), a dream-like documentary in which the painter creates a series of works that exist only on film - most of the paintings were destroyed when shooting ended.
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Two friends, the great painter and the great director, Pablo Picasso and Henri-George Clouzot decided to do what Goethe's Faust had dreamed about - to capture and to store forever the moment of beauty and inspiration. Picasso conceives, sketches, and paints twenty canvases before our eyes as the camera rolls.