Pablo Picasso – a master at work

Written by Amitai Sasson on April 6, 2007

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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.

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4 Comments

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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
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.
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.
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