Picasso light painting

Photo of the day: Light Painting Photos by Pablo Picasso. Not many people knew that Picasso did light painting.

Pablo Picasso, Light Painting, 1949 #pablopicasso #picasso #art

When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark — and the Spanish genius’s lively, ever-stirring mind began to race. According to LIFE, Picasso gave Mili 15 minutes to try one…

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The story goes that when photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso’s studio in 1949, he showed the artist these photos he’d taken in 1945 of Carol Lynne skating with flashlights embedded in her boots: Mili suggested Picasso draw with a flashlight in a darkened room. What happened next, as detailed in LIFE, Jan 30, 1950: Picasso gave

Jean Cocteau in 1950.

Picasso & Gjon Mili | bull painting with light| Museo del Novecento, Milano, 1951 VS Gjon Mili, Pablo Picasso's Light… #pablopicasso #gjonmili #moderntart #continuousline #abstract #artcure

Picasso, light

(Foreign) on Instagram: "Looking Deeper Into Pablo Picasso’s Rare “Light Drawings” Collective. + Near the end of the life of Pablo Picasso, he would be approached by LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator who would ask Picasso to to do what he had never seen done before. Gjon visited Pablo in the South of France in 1949. When they met, they had an almost immediate breakthrough as Gjon showed Picasso his photos of his drawings with light from skaters with lights…