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.
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
Fridays are comic day for our 30 day challenge, and today your challenge is to show a progression. People who draw and paint often feel like everything they make needs to be completely different and original to what they made before. This isn’t true for paintings, and it’s definitely not true for comics, in which …
[image_with_animation image_url=”12476″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Prior to this post, I wrote about Edward Hopper’s influences in painting and printmaking, and his process. Today is all about Hopper’s drawings and sketches. Hopper’s Sketches Given all of Hopper’s realist paintings, I figured I could find some photographs of the original scenes Hopper painted from, and see the choices …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9362″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I went to see Figuring History at the Seattle Art Museum (closes soon!). Figuring History is a selection of work by three generations of contemporary black American artists (Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas) as they use their spin on white dominated painting traditions to address the white dominated …
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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