Inside Picasso’s Mind

Picasso allowed his canvas to be filmed as he was painting a bullfight composition. You can see the video here at Google or at Neatorama’s site here.

In 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed Picasso as he painted – the result is a time-lapse photography of the fantastic way Picasso created his artworks.

One advantage of viewing an embedded video is that you can use the slider bar to quickly view the video going backwards and forwards and it provides some amazing insight into Pablo Picasso’s methods and where he focused his attention.

At 1:58, above, it looks textured, dark, richly colored, and finished to me.

But no, ol’ Pablo doesn’t like the fact that you can see the bullfighter’s butt or that his legs go up in the air. At 2:05, above, he has changed the position of the matador’s legs and has gone completely cubist on the bull.

Finally, he significantly changes the feel of the entire composition by applying a lighter background. I can’t help but wonder after watching this several times whether or not Picasso was pleased with his final product?

Perhaps the video was truncated and there is more to this work? I tried searching online to find the completed work of art, but no luck.