Pablo Picasso

Series: Palettes: Great Artists and Their Paintings Series

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1993

Creator: Alain Jaubert

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Presents and analyzes Pablo Picasso's painting Crucifixion, painted in 1930, in relation to both aesthetic and symbolic elements. Discusses Picasso's earlier sketches which led up to Crucifixion, the influences of other artists' work on the painting, and the ways in which the painting reflected Picasso's personal life and troubled relationship with women. Uses computer techniques to emphasize certain parts of the painting to facilitate analysis and observation.