Behind the Picture: Picasso Draws With Light

Through the 80's to 2000''s off and on, I experimented with flashes covered in colored gels to paint with light with an open shutter (on print film). Farther down are some open shutter pics of sand mermaids at night lit up by both my vehicle headlights and colored flashes, about yr 2000.

In looking into the history of it I read that Picasso was one of the early pioneers of light drawing. I just found this article online this morning to share here.
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https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/behind-the-picture-picasso-draws-with-light/

When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen resulted 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 ever-stirring mind began to race.

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This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso’s “light drawings,” were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were created and yet they still live, six decades later, in Mili’s playful, hypnotic images. Many of them were also put on display in early 1950 in a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

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