Q2 Awareness Blog Post Week #17

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

William Kentridge was born in 1955 and is a South African artist known for his drawings, prints, and also films.

A significant technique that gained him noteriety was filming a drawing, making changes and erasing things, and then doing it again. These hand drawn animated films produced an interesting effect and gained him attention during the 1990s.

I think I can take a lot of inspiration from the types of marks that this process created, which are super dynamic and energetic like those I want to put in my own drawings.

Mammoth on Exhibit, drawing for Zeno Writing, 2002

Trieste, palm tree in foreground, drawing for Zeno Writing, 2002

Stereoscope 1999

I think his piece Stereoscope most obviously shows the technique he was doing, and I think the remnants of marks of what was there before are really interesting and make the drawings have so much more character. I am very inspired by this more actionable and dynamic technique, and definitely would be interested in trying charcoal in the future.