picasso: drawing with light

so far, the only museum i've visited here is the picasso museum, which was small, but fantastic. not by any means some sort of definitive collection -- in fact, it housed none of his major works, but it was a great showcase of the enormous variety that characterized his career. it was such a pleasant surprise to run across so many picasso pieces that resembled nothing i had ever seen before in my rather zealous museum-visiting.

this follows along the same lines. from LIFE magazine, a series of photos taken in 1949 of picasso's "light drawings." description below, slideshow of a few fantastic pictures underneath. go here to see the full versions:

LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark—and Picasso's mind began to race. The series of photographs that follows—Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in a dark room; the images vanished almost as soon as they were created.