Oh, Picasso. He's been dead for 37 years but still manages to pop up on the internet with cool ideas. For instance, these photographs on Google's Life images database.
The story behind them: In 1949 Picasso's friend and Life Magazine photographer Gijon Mili presented Picasso with light "pencils, and then photographed him while he designed these incredible figures. Mili thought these photos were extraordinary because they illustrate Picasso's creative brain with much more immediacy than any sculpture or painting.
What I love about the photos is not just the beautiful figures but the way his squat, bald and shorts-wearing 68 year old body seems to be exuding creativity from every sore joint.
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