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.
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Only one more day in this 30 Day Creative Challenge! Yesterday you drew your brain. Today, show us your teeth. Share your brain on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #teeth Or post to this Padlet. – Recent Padlet links: Day 24: The Big SneezeDay 25: Cezanne’s FigureDay 26: Pentimento (see 24)Day 27: Infanta Margarita Teresa in …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9075″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hiroshige lived from 1797 – 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. He was a Japanese woodblock artist, one of the last great masters of the woodblock print. His brilliant landscape compositions found their way to the West (Japoniseme), influencing Impressionists and Post-Impressionists such as Degas, Manet, and Monet. …
Today my art buddy Lendy and I took some photos to practice for our “Draw like Diebenkorn” workshop this weekend. We set up some still lifes, and I took some selfies. I don’t have a camera with a tripod in my apartment so I used my laptop’s Photo Booth feature. For anyone who has used …
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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