[image_with_animation image_url=”10543″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There is something so danged exciting about making a big piece of art. I mean, a really really big piece of art. The work to make a visual design, which is most of the art process, does not usually change much. The labor can involve some different tools, some physical use of our sedentary bodies, and time. After the design and the physical making, the result – a giant artwork – is infinitely more thrilling than a little standard thing. Big is impressive. Big is unusual. Big is fun. Looking at a big artwork, a viewer has the experience of being inside it, physically impacted by it, not separate from it. Big is beautiful.
On Tuesday we start our Giant Woodblock series, a class to gear up for our big Steamroller Printmaking event on August 25th. This is a very rare opportunity to make and print giant woodblocks (with the help of power tools and a support class) and have them printed in celebration and hard hats. Don’t miss the chance to go big!
Below, I found a series of giant woodcuts by William Kentridge, a series for which he had a lot of help printing (and so will you). Enjoy. [image_with_animation image_url=”10539″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Triumphs and Laments
In early 2016 William Kentridge started work on a 550 meter work called Triumphs and Laments. These Triumphs and Laments would be based on his drawings, scenes from the cultural and political history of Rome. Kentridge started collaborating with Master Printer Jillian Ross of David Krut Workshop (DKW), on a grouping of three figures from the frieze as this would be their first woodcut project with Kentridge, titled Mantegna. Excerpts from davidkrutprojects.com, please read more here.
Blogger: Sbongiseni Khulu
“As the proofing of William Kentridge’s The Flood continues it becomes all the more apparent to us that everything is subject to change. Be it the woods natural inclination to expand and contract due to external stimuli or our rigorous efforts to document those changes so that we may attain the same image each and every time, everything is subject to change.” [image_with_animation image_url=”10541″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%
Leon Golub was an awkward man who made ugly paintings. They’re about power mostly. Violence, war, and other unhappy things. I learned about Golub in art school, around the first years of the internet. What impressed me more than his large scale work and hard edged process was his collection of reference images. Golub had file cabinets full …
The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe “Fireworks are intrinsically fleeting, transitory, fugitive. Their power lies in the brutality of their transience: dying the instant of their birth, consumed in the act of consummation. There is something ironic, even poignant, then, in the attempt to render permanent through the medium of art a phenomenon …
This is day 12 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today we have another Vocab word challenge. Make something inspired by the word Atramentous: (adjective) similar to or as black as ink. Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #atramentous Or post to today’s Padlet page.
Giant Woodblock Prints by William Kentridge
[image_with_animation image_url=”10543″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There is something so danged exciting about making a big piece of art. I mean, a really really big piece of art. The work to make a visual design, which is most of the art process, does not usually change much. The labor can involve some different tools, some physical use of our sedentary bodies, and time. After the design and the physical making, the result – a giant artwork – is infinitely more thrilling than a little standard thing. Big is impressive. Big is unusual. Big is fun. Looking at a big artwork, a viewer has the experience of being inside it, physically impacted by it, not separate from it. Big is beautiful.
On Tuesday we start our Giant Woodblock series, a class to gear up for our big Steamroller Printmaking event on August 25th. This is a very rare opportunity to make and print giant woodblocks (with the help of power tools and a support class) and have them printed in celebration and hard hats. Don’t miss the chance to go big!
Below, I found a series of giant woodcuts by William Kentridge, a series for which he had a lot of help printing (and so will you). Enjoy. [image_with_animation image_url=”10539″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Triumphs and Laments
In early 2016 William Kentridge started work on a 550 meter work called Triumphs and Laments. These Triumphs and Laments would be based on his drawings, scenes from the cultural and political history of Rome. Kentridge started collaborating with Master Printer Jillian Ross of David Krut Workshop (DKW), on a grouping of three figures from the frieze as this would be their first woodcut project with Kentridge, titled Mantegna. Excerpts from davidkrutprojects.com, please read more here.
Blogger: Sbongiseni Khulu
“As the proofing of William Kentridge’s The Flood continues it becomes all the more apparent to us that everything is subject to change. Be it the woods natural inclination to expand and contract due to external stimuli or our rigorous efforts to document those changes so that we may attain the same image each and every time, everything is subject to change.” [image_with_animation image_url=”10541″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%
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