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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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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 later using oil paints, with Clouzot employing a ...
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Georges Auric
- 18 May 1956 (France)
- Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot
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. Pauline Kael called it “One of the most exciting and joyful ...
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. Clouzot, who was 12 years old when he first met ...
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The Mystery of Picasso. 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.”. Together, they devised an innovative technique: the ...
Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and the most influential artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, use experimental and innovative techniques to create an entirely new kind of art documentary. As the artist wields his brush, Clouzot invites us to watch the artwork unfold, erupt, and dance into being before our eyes.