William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955). More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015.
Digital scan from the master Apple ProRes file. George Eastman Museum, gift of the artist.
source link is Eastman Museum
Contemporary Drawing Practices ART 304
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Kara Walker, Artist
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| Gone: An Historical Romance of Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of a Young Negress and Her Heart |
Kara Walker was born in 1969 in Stockton, California, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Beginning with Gone: An Historical Romance of Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of a Young Negress and Her Heart (1994), she became known for her panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes, usually black figures against a white wall, which address the history of American slavery and racism through violent and unsettling imagery. Gone includes a tree bough that suggests a typical novelistic setting for a lovers’ meeting, yet all manner of surreal activity takes place: the woman of a white couple that is about to kiss has four legs; the man seems to touch the bottom of a nearby black boy with his sword; this boy is holding a swan that has emerged from a black woman, who floats on the water (a set of metaphors for miscegenation).
Above text from Guggenheim.org
Watch on YouTube. Kara Walker talks about her work.
Link here.
More work by Kara Walker below.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Vida Simon, Artist
"The Montreal-based artist creates gentle, introspective drawing installation/performances where we witness her artistic process live and in progress. She literally embodies her own art, working with practices of drawing, writing, object making, movement, and sound. " - source is ART 21. Link here for more.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
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