Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing. As he wields his brush, we see through the canvas as the artwork unfolds, erupts, dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the twentieth century, is making a painting, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the famous French director (The Wages of Fear, Diabolique), is making a movie. In 1955, Clouzot joined forces with his friend Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film - a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity. Together, they devised an innovative technique - the filmmaker placed his camera behind a semi-transparent surface on which the artist drew with special inks that bled through. Clouzot thus captured a perfect reverse image of Picasso's brushstrokes and the motion picture screen itself becomes the artist's canvas. Here, the master creates, and sometimes obliterates, 20 works (most of them, in fact, destroyed after the shoot), ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to Cinemascope color murals - artworks which evolve in minutes through the magic of stop-motion animation. Unavailable for more than a decade, The Mystery of Picasso is exhilarating, mesmerizing, enchanting and unforgettable. It is simply one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made. The French government agreed - in 1984 it declared the film a national treasure.
本片的珍贵之处在于以拍罪案片闻名的克鲁曹竟然征得大画家毕加索的同意,进入到他在戛纳的画室里,对这位世纪伟人的作画过程进行实地拍摄。毕加索不喜欢上镜头,但75岁时他身穿短裤,在透明板上创作了15幅作品,其中一幅是五分钟完成的素描。这些作品事后全部销毁,因此本片是仅存的纪录,被法国政府视为国家级珍宝。影片让观众能真正领略到大师的整个创作历程和方法,虽然影片对白很少,但不会让人觉得枯燥乏味。静静地观察毕加索的创作,能让有艺术触觉的观众一起伴随摄影机享受一幅幅伟大作品的诞生,从而明白艺术创作的伟大和不易。
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