Picasso Drawing With Light
June 22nd, 2009In 1949, LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in Vallauris, France. He showed Pablo some photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark. Picasso was immediately inspired, these photos were the result. You can see more of these in this LIFE gallery.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Badass.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
this is sick!
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
this is very cool (:
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
pretty cool i guess.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
If you liked these photos, you have to see the movie The Mystery of Picasso:
http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Picasso-Pablo/dp/B00007ELEI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049531/
I was transfixed when I caught it on public TV.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:46 am
hi-res via google:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&sa=1&q=picasso+light+source%3Alife&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 am
this is sorta cool but its something i could have done, just b/c it has the name Picasso
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 am
If you liked Picasso, take a look at my Blind-Drawing…
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June 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 7:57 am
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June 24th, 2009 at 8:39 am
hey asdf! coulda, shoulda, woulda, right? too bad you didn’t and Picasso did.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
The music video for lovers in japan by coldplay has a lot of this type of stuff
June 24th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
this is pretty cool.
i can sorta do this, but not as well[the photography]
i can just to strokes and stuff with light.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:34 am
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June 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Inspirador.
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June 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am
absolutely incredible!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:54 am
This has been an enduring inspiration to so many of us. Still a popular technique today in the digital age, but always impressive.
Light has to be the best visual medium to work with… The Open Collective
June 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Amazing
June 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
It looks exactly like everyone else on earth who draws with light, or a sparkler, or candles, etc… Who hasn’t done this as a child, or in a media arts program? I see no reason this is more interesting than any of you doing this just because it’s Picasso.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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June 28th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
“It looks exactly like everyone else on earth who draws with light, or a sparkler, or candles, etc… Who hasn’t done this as a child, or in a media arts program? I see no reason this is more interesting than any of you doing this just because it’s Picasso.”
“this is sorta cool but its something i could have done, just b/c it has the name Picasso”
very dumb comments – sure I could do it too, but he was doing it first
June 29th, 2009 at 5:18 am
This is something I have been doing with flashlights and laser pointers for years! Sure, he did this several years before I was even born, but it is something that has been done for a long time too… asdf, you are correct, it is just because it has Picasso’s name. Cool stuff though
June 29th, 2009 at 6:20 am
“very dumb comments – sure I could do it too, but he was doing it first”
He did it before me because he was alive before me, so that’s hardly a valid argument. The fact is the article says Picasso stole the idea from ice skaters, so you shouldn’t even be impressed by when he did it either, if that’s your opinion.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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June 30th, 2009 at 5:10 am
“It looks exactly like everyone else on earth who draws with light, or a sparkler, or candles, etc… Who hasn’t done this as a child, or in a media arts program? I see no reason this is more interesting than any of you doing this just because it’s Picasso.”
the thing is, it doesn’t look exactly like everyone else who has done this type of art. it still looks like art done by picasso. and i think it’s pretty cool that he can be consistent in his style using an entirely different medium.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 am
Picasso was my first artist crush.
I never got over him.
He was the most pivital artist of the 20th century.
Although, Basquait was not far behind!
Peace,
-tb
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Awesome speed and precision required here for the photographs to even have a chance of coming out viewable. Amazing stuff!
July 5th, 2009 at 9:44 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Years ahead of his time. Brilliant!
July 17th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I think all the pics are incredible, but the fourth one is stunning. These aren’t just random lines, people, or someone trying to write his name with a sparkler, these are whole, complete works of art. More than half a century after his time, Picasso can still awe you, inspire you, and spark a heated debate. I call that brilliance.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:03 am
“very dumb comments – sure I could do it too, but he was doing it first”
“He did it before me because he was alive before me, so that’s hardly a valid argument. The fact is the article says Picasso stole the idea from ice skaters, so you shouldn’t even be impressed by when he did it either, if that’s your opinion.”
Hey meh so maybe you are unhappy coz some caveman has invented wheel before you “because he was born before you” of course :D. Sure art is stealing and modifying it, inventing new, transforming etc… Most of the things you do because you have seen it somewhere, you have done it -(“with light, or a sparkler, or candles, etc… Who hasn’t done this as a child, or in a media arts program?”) NOT because you have invented it just because you have seen somebody else doing it. If you would have been creative it would be your pics. not Picasso’s on this web page.
All my comments are because I feel you discredit this guy and try to heal your own complexes.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Oh I love these! HCxx
November 12th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Picasso was actually ridiculed by the art community for doing these when he started his light drawings.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am
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November 13th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
These are great! the photographer Jeff Newsom does this in some of his wedding photos:
http://voltronofawesomeness.com/imported-data/?currentPage=3
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January 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
asdf said”his is sorta cool but its something i could have done, just b/c it has the name Picasso”
Of course you dork, but Picasso made it in 1949 when there were no computers or means to make that kind of thing.
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May 13th, 2010 at 5:27 am
FLAWLESS VICTORY
February 24th, 2011 at 9:45 am
You people don’t realize : Everything Picasso did was not amazing or a flawless victory. These paintings with lights look like anyone could have done them. They look like scribblings. Also, there was obviously the means to make these in 1949, they were not Photoshopped ? So who’s the dork now.
March 1st, 2011 at 8:28 am
Nancy -” Everything Picasso did was not amazing or a flawless victory.” – that is your opinion – nothing more. What is the point of your statement? By the way – where are your scribblings?
May 14th, 2011 at 2:31 am
Also check out this guy’s work, it is beautiful, the site has a video documentary that is really amazing. http://iso1200.blogspot.com/2011/03/ball-of-light.html
July 17th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
I don’t care if people did this before or if people have done this since, all light photography has beautiful elements to me and this is no different. The fact that he still continued even while others ridiculed him is what is inspirational to me. And all art is simply taking techniques developed by others and trying your hand at it. Arguing about how “original” this is just because some people like looking at these pictures and you don’t seems silly to me.
July 21st, 2011 at 3:33 pm
the idea is really badass but the visual input is alright
July 24th, 2011 at 8:22 am
It’s rather amusing that Pablo Picasso himself had fun with “light painting”, just like a whole wave of young people today. It’s also extremely interesting to see what he did with the medium, as it is a split-second act. His illustrations certainly are artistic, and different than the average teenager’s. However, they are maybe not as different as you would have expected. Look on the bright side people. The first one is my favorite.
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July 26th, 2011 at 5:02 am
stupid
August 4th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
This just goes to show what an amazing knowledge of the shape of things Picasso had. He could even draw them without any reference to any line he just drew. Brilliant
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:02 pm
pablo picasso invented glowsticking before the rave scene even started. fuckin epic!