Pablo Picasso – a master at work

Written by Amitai Sasson on April 6, 2007  


In 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed the famous documentary “The Mystery of Picasso.” This is a video showing Pablo Picasso as he paints. The result is a time-lapse photography documenting how Picasso created his artworks. What’s amazing is that he actually alters the canvas as he progresses, basically taking a relatively normal painting to begin with and turning it into a cubist masterpiece.



  • violetta
    I don't know anything about this particular painting, but the bull, the bullfight, and the minotaur (mythical half-man half-bull) were all recurring themes throughout Picasso's work. He often explored the ideas of man vs. beast, primal vs. civilized, violence, dominance, etc. As a Spaniard, the bull and the bullfight were part of his culture. I think that much of the time, he was exloring his own psyche and the dualities and contradictions that existed within him.
  • kellag
    Although all the paintings done by Picasso for the film were said to have been destroyed, omor has it that the artist actually held on to them.
  • memere
    I took a look at the painting and it looks like a bull with a person laying over the bull. Now I don't know anything about this man's paintings but to me it depicts a bull fighter that lost
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