Picasso (1985)

Año 1919. La Gran Guerra ha acabado y el café Rotonde se ha convertido en el refugio de la élite artística: Picasso, Rivera, Stein, Cocteau, Soutine, Modigliani, etc. "Modigliani" es la historia jamás contada de la ácida rivalidad entre Picasso y Modigliani, marcada por la genialidad, la arrogancia y las pasiones. Jeanne Hébuterne es una bella católica, cuyo error fue enamorarse de Modigliani, un judío. El padre de ésta, llevado por el fervor religioso, envía secretamente al hijo de Modigliani y Jeanne, a un convento lejano. Modigliani, tratando de sacar a su familia de la pobreza, se inscribe en el certamen anual de arte y Picasso, guiado por esa rivalidad, se inscribe también... (FILMAFFINITY)

Drama que retrata la vida del universal pintor, sus amores y pasiones. En 1943, la joven pintora Françoise Gilot conoce a Pablo Picasso. Durante los siguientes diez años será su musa y pareja, proporcionándole inspiración y dos hijos. También verá cómo otras mujeres aparecen en la vida de Pablo y deberá además soportar sus caprichos, su extraño sentido del humor y su tacañería.

In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify “Classic Art”. This immersive new documentary reveals the Nazi’s complicated relationship with classical and modern art, displaying an incredible number of masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir and Gauguin amongst others, intertwined with human stories from the most infamous period of the twentieth century. A state-of-the-art detective story exploring the Nazis’ obsession with creative expression, Hitler versus Picasso combines history, art and human drama for an unforgettable cinema experience.

Ya en su infancia, Pablo Picasso mostraba talento por la pintura, y por ello es enviado a la Academia de Artes de Madrid. Allí se convierte en pintor, pero ha de vivir en París en la pobreza. Un día es descubierto por un millonario y empieza a ganar dinero conociendo de esta manera a gente famosa de la década de 1920 como Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler y Churchill.

París, 1911. Cuando el cuadro «La Gioconda» de Leonardo Da Vinci es robado del museo del Louvre, se sospecha que los autores del audaz robo son miembros de un grupo de artistas bohemios liderados por el pintor Pablo Ruiz Picasso y el poeta Guillaume Apollinaire…

An imaginary insight into Pablo Picasso's creative mind and painted creatures and characters. We enter in his head and walk with him the intricate maze that was his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche and came out when he painted a canvas. His imagination is presented as the myth of the maze and the Minotaur, and some of the characters in the piece are in Picasso's real paintings - his famous dove, the Minotaur, and the ladies of Avignon, among many others.

¿Cómo un joven pintor malagueño se convirtió en el gran artista que pintó Las señoritas de Avignon? ¿Cómo y dónde empezó todo? Los primeros años del joven Picasso, su educación y aprendizaje, y tres ciudades que jugarían un papel clave: Málaga, Barcelona y París. Un recorrido que explora sus obras de estos primeros años, mirando detenidamente dos periodos claves: el llamado período azul y el período rosa. Y después un hito, 1907, la creación de Las señoritas de Avignon, Picasso sólo tenía 25 años cuando lo pintó. Una pintura que impactó al mundo del arte y lo cambió para siempre, dando paso al cubismo y al arte moderno. Trabajando estrechamente con los Museos de Picasso en Málaga, Barcelona y París, esta película ahonda en cómo el artista se elevó a grandes alturas y realizó logros extraordinarios.

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner.

In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his own daughter, he remembers an incredible love affair, in which a film with a blue cow plays a role. In the majority of the paintings shown in the film are works of Herbert Achternbusch.

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both death’s approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics. Those who were members of Picasso’s private inner circle – gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up – put the later work forward as some of his frankest, wittiest and most profound.

The opening of the Picasso-National Museum in Paris granted a unique chance for Didier Baussy to document the precious collection in the museum in 81-minutes of film. The museum shows paintings held back by Picasso himself which have been very valuable for his connection to the world and his memories. A sensitive Analysis of these pictures dominantly from the Guernica-phase, grant a deep insight into the history of this artist and man Picasso, a geographical location of the scenes and a glimpse of his sources of inspiration.

The story of a nine-year-old boy Denis, who first enters the circus. The new world captures his imagination. He falls in love with a little actress, an equilibrist — a girl on a ball. After a while, Denis persuades his father to go with him to the circus again. But the performances in Moscow ended, the fairy flew away to another city... Once, being in a museum, he sees a painting by Pablo Picasso "Girl on a Ball". In this picture he recognizes his love — Tanya ...

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.

“When Picasso died I wanted to make the first post-mortem documentary, as I knew would happen anyway, and cheaply. The film took four hours to finish from camera to print and cost a little under $5."

1950 Belgian short documentary by Paul Haesaerts

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”

Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an amusing chain reaction snowballs into a hilarious romp.

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.

"Too much Picasso kills Picasso?" In France as in a lot of other parts of the world Pablo Picasso's art and life is on exhibition. An episode of Le Figaro's Les Décrypteurs.