Director: Henri Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pablo Picasso, Henry Georges Clouzot
Clouzot, known to be the French’s answer to Hitchcock with
his breath-taking repertoire of work
including Les Diaboliques and Wages of Fear gives us a glimpse into work of
arguably the greatest painter of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. It
is an interesting watch for anyone curious about the creative process.
You have to know the rules of the system to break them and
to add different dimensions to them – nothing exemplifies this better than the
mastery of Picasso. He chiselled out his various perspectives on life, to
combine them in a different perspective altogether. Every creative process
happens in the mind, but if you observe a painting being made, the creative
flow from one’s mind to the canvas can be noted shade by shade. Because, painting is closest to the soul and is its direct expression, than most other
art forms, except music.
What kind of rebel are you, if you do not produce expressions of
rebellion? Picasso was a rebel, a master and a person who knew himself and his
limitations. He has been criticised by the likes of Jackson Pollock, for not
willing to move out of his comfort zone and stretch his work beyond himself. I imagine Picasso’s reply would be,” I am an
artist for who, art is a means (of living), as much as being an end in itself”.