William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again.
Below are several short videos by Kentridge with a focus on philosophy and his process. Click here for a selection of longer works. The first video is based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the book SIX DRAWING LESSONS is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge’s thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. The following are self interviews, and conversations about making art.
This is our last post in our list of Faves from the 30 Day Challenge. We received hundreds of creations throughout the month. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED! The next 30SAL post will include prizes and awards for our tip pics, and special recognition for the artists who completed all 30. Below are some …
10 teams collaborated for this blind drawing challenge. Each team member emailed me their drawings without their team mates seeing what they drew, and I assembled them. It was fun to get these in my inbox. We are definitely doing this again. Check out these drawings! Winning team below. And the winning team is… RECKLESS LINES! …
Today is the darkest day of the year, made extra dark this year by the pandemic. The good news is that from this day on, the days get brighter. I’ll hold my breath on the other. Today’s post has a collection of low light and nocturne paintings by Sangram Majumdar, one of my favorite painters. …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Each participant draws or collages an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is the first week in a …
William Kentridge: A Drawing Lesson
https://youtu.be/tyndlMIgbnU https://youtu.be/5_UphwAfjhk https://youtu.be/m1oK5LMJ3zY https://youtu.be/ja4Wk7g6sdE https://youtu.be/nxGrazdl9WY
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