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Paul HaesaertsVisite à Picasso (1950)

‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white.


This movie is part of the collection: Academic Film Archive of North America

Producer: Paul Haesaerts
Sponsor: THE PROCESS of Santa Fe
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: Art; painting

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Reviewer: rsadler - - November 16, 2008
Subject: A new appreciation of Pablo Picasso
A good look back now that Picasso is almost forgotten. He was once a superstar of art.

Reviewer: henning61 - - March 13, 2008
Subject: The Master
Actually I was looking for the footage where Pablo, in less than five seconds and by one single, continuos stroke with the brush, paints a bull on a grass field. I saw this in the 1970's, and haven't been able to find it since then. But this footage is great, too.

Reviewer: masokist - - October 20, 2007
Subject: the classic
this classic little piece which features that oh so over used footage of Picasso painting on glass while a camera films him from the other (this footage pops up it seems once every year in some corporate commercial or what not.)
not a documentary by any means just a rough out line of Pablo and tons of great footage of his studio and him working in it.
the organ music is top notch i loved it. it felt right at place at place with the aesthetics