[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%”]
Yesterday I posted Fran O’Neill’s studies from unidentified masterworks. In no time at all you savvy people identified three out of four. Nice work! Piero Della Francesca, Battle Between Heraclius and Chosroes Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women Diego Velázquez, The Spinners Las Hilanderas, translated to “The Spinners,” is a painting by the …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7744″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Window Collage by Stuart Shils This creative challenge has 3 parts, but if parts 2 and 3 don’t work with the light and where you are, or if they’re just not working creatively, feel free to just do part 1, and post your work. See below for a link …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an …
You all have been drawing so many cats, I figure I might as well make it official. Today, draw a cat. If you don’t have a cat, find an unusual photograph of a cat. If you want to draw a dog instead, draw a dog. To get you off on the right paw, I’m including …
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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