“By organizing the material we have available to us –photos, archive film, direct personal

testimony, exceptional witnesses – we will explore the figure of Picasso, the man, and the painter: unquestionably, the most popular and universal artist of the 20th century.”

本书借鉴了作者拍摄Picasso，一部1981 年制作的纪录片，的回忆。Picasso是以庆祝这位艺术家诞辰一百周年的大制作。为此，作者采访了毕加索的亲戚和亲密朋友们，这在当时被视为涉及“国家事务”，访问了政治和文化界的最高阶层。

这本书回顾了毕加索的人生最重要的那些时刻，也收入了导演跟许多名人的私下对话，包括Salvador Dalí, Michel Leiris, Dora Maar, Camilo José Cela, Jacqueline Picasso, Rafael Alberti, José Bergamín以及Antoni Tàpies。

关于作者：

LUIS REVENGA (Nambroca, 1941) is a director, documentary maker, playwright and film producer. Throughout his career he has been committed to promoting Spanish culture. He is perhaps best known as a filmmaker. He has made four feature films and more than a hundred documentaries. As a screenwriter he received the National Screenplay Award in 1976, and has written action movies for Eddie Constantine, directed by Jesús Franco. His documentaries include Picasso (1981), Dali (1984) and Madrid: Los Placeres de los Sentidos (1992).

“The essential challenge was to explore Picasso’s personality. And to explore Picasso’s personality it was necessary to consider an important and little understood subject: the link between his life and his work.” 

“His dazzling personality exercised tremendous power over those around him. Picasso had absolute control over his work and his actions. And, hanging over the testimony in the documentary at all times is the power of Picasso, the Indisputable Genius.”