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 …
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William Kentridge: A Drawing Lesson
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Michelle Muldrow
Michelle Muldrow uses the aqueous and graphic casein paint to give fresh painterly color to her urban landscapes. Her scenes describe the buzzing light and glinting metal, linoleum, and synthetic fabrics of department stores. Edited from her website: Muldrow explores the the landscape genre and what it means to be picturesque. She contrasts the idea of the picturesque by …
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Marc Dalessio’s Winter Landscape Demo
Recently I’ve posted several painters’ interviews from Painting Perceptions, so today I wanted to branch out a little. I was happy to find this Youtube painting demo with some helpful information about painting outside. When I dug a little deeper to see what else I could learn about this painter I found an interview: an interview …
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Casey Klahn
“The Colorist” Casey Klahn is an American pastel artist born in 1958 in Hoquiam, Washington, now living in Davenport. His pastel landscapes are abstracted shapes where color gets to play.
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Mark Bohne on Painting Perceptions
Marc Bohne January 29, 2010 By Larry Interview on Painting Perceptions Marc Bohne Clearing Sky, oil on panel, 6 x 7 inches Marc Bohne is a landscape painter from Seattle, Washington. His website has an amazing number of exquisite landscapes. The smaller landscapes, that appear to have been made quickly from life have an immediacy …
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Stuart Shils (Part 2)
Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox April 6, 2012 By Larry 14 Comments Stuart Shils End of a Sumer Day, Last Blast of Warm Light, Looking Back, 30×42 inches click here for a larger view Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox March 2012, in advance of an exhibition at steven harvey fine …
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Cai Guo-Qiang Drawing with Gunpowder
I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want to do this. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line Cai Guo-Qiang (edited bits from wikipedia) Cai Guo-Qiang (Chinese: 蔡国强; born …
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Luciano De Liberato: Pathways And Geometry
Born on this day: September 6, 1947, Luciano de Liberato is an Italian colorist who paints constructed “still lifes” of colored paper. The paintings appear at first to be flat but upon further inspection are actually carefully crafted to imitate exactly the depth of layered paper, woven, and lifted up a bit at the edges. The …
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Karen Margolis
What happens when paper is treated as a raw material, instead of a flat white rectangle? The photograph to the left is one that’s been circulating on the internet lately. This is what happens when wasps are given colored construction paper. The paper is used as fibers and pulp, not ready for pencil lines to represent an …
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