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A Visit to Picasso

6.3 21 mins Documentary   1950
Art et Cinéma  
Director(s): 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/)

Casts of A Visit to Picasso

Pablo Picasso

as Himself

Gérard Philipe

as Récitant / Narrator

Frank Silvera

as Commentator

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