[image_with_animation image_url=”7035″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I prefer a perfect sheet of Rives BFK, baptized in a bath of holy water and dabbed by angels wings, printed with hesitant optimism and an aneurysm when an imperfection emerges, but William Kentridge, he throws it down. That man can work the paper. Torn pieces, inked, and carefully arranged. Look how thoughtful he is with his whimsy. Have you ever heard an artwork mutter? Listen.
Above: William Kentridge, The Full Stop Swallows The Sentence (2012) Hand-printed lithograph (listed also as linocut). Image courtesy Greg Kucera Gallery – http://www.gregkucera.com/past.htm
Below: William Kentridge, Undo, Unsay and Universal Archive
[image_with_animation image_url=”7038″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] More of Kentridge’s Linocuts from 2012 (photo courtesy David Krut)
” load_in_animation=”none William Kentridge, Nine Trees, 2012 (Linocut printed on pages from Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) [image_with_animation image_url=”7045″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
PROCESS UPDATE: It has been a delight to have our official “Artist Not In Residence” Patty Haller around the studios. She has been at the studio almost every day, and openly sharing her process with students and guests. Today, NPR news is playing from a little boombox on the floor. On the table, a single potted fern …
I love our art shows! They are big events, over 100 artworks in each of our last two Big League Shows! A fabulous range of artworks and artists collected to form a dynamic and inclusive arts community. Let’s do it again! CALL FOR ART! League members, and everyone who has taken or taught a class at the League …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7482″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Every day, librarians across America are called to respond to book murders. Each homicide case is tragic, but there are few cases more heartbreaking and more difficult to understand than serial book murder. For years, library scientists, academics, and mental health experts have studied serial book murder, asking why, …
Bridget Riley’s Op Art When Bridget Riley first exhibited her dizzying black and white abstracts in the 1960s, people were amazed at how the lines and shapes appeared to move and vibrate right off the canvas. It was like she was painting with electricity itself! In 1967, she introduced Seurat-inspired color applications, and her paintings …
William Kentridge Prints
[image_with_animation image_url=”7035″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I prefer a perfect sheet of Rives BFK, baptized in a bath of holy water and dabbed by angels wings, printed with hesitant optimism and an aneurysm when an imperfection emerges, but William Kentridge, he throws it down. That man can work the paper. Torn pieces, inked, and carefully arranged. Look how thoughtful he is with his whimsy. Have you ever heard an artwork mutter? Listen.
Above: William Kentridge, The Full Stop Swallows The Sentence (2012) Hand-printed lithograph (listed also as linocut). Image courtesy Greg Kucera Gallery – http://www.gregkucera.com/past.htm
Below: William Kentridge, Undo, Unsay and Universal Archive
[image_with_animation image_url=”7038″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”7039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] More of Kentridge’s Linocuts from 2012 (photo courtesy David Krut)
http://davidkrutprojects.com/16393/new-linocuts-by-william-kentridge-2012 [image_with_animation image_url=”7041″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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