Influential artist William Kentridge Artist #1

1.            The artist’s background (personal, artistic, and social contexts)

William Kentridge here is the website for is bibliography. http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/william-kentridge

2.            The big idea and key concepts (what is the work about?)

William kentridge’s work has a lot to do with political figures and events in the world we live in.

3.            Boundaries (Media, subject matter, visual form, techniques)

He uses many types of media and technology such as film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance. His subject matter a lot of the time is human figures and he uses a lot of movement in his pieces. He uses many techniques to make his pieces move and be seen. One technique is drawing with charcoal and photographing those works as he is still working on them so it creates a film of the movement of that work.

4.            The key artwork(s) (include title, year, medium, and insert links if needed)

From "9 Drawings for Projection (1989-2003): Felix in Exile," 1994
Production stills, dimensions variable
Photo by John Hodgkiss 
© William Kentridge

5.            The artist’s artmaking practices

•                    Knowledge (how does the artist acquire knowledge?)

He acquires knowledge by experimenting with many different types of media and combining them.

•                    Artmaking problem (how to investigate and express the idea?) 
o Technical strategies (i.e., limit color choices or only use secondary colors)
o Conceptual strategies (i.e., play as a conceptual strategy for experimenting, pretending, 
and risk taking)

William kentridge uses a lot of risk taking to express his ideas behind his work. He uses a lot of black and white and grays. He has many strategies for making his art the way he wants it to be seen. He draws over already existing drawings and films the changes he makes.