William Kentridge
South African · b. 1955 · Painter, Printmaker
William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he… (Wikipedia)
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William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.
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TateArt Institute of ChicagoEye FilmmuseumFinnish National GalleryHessel Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtMinneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of CanadaNational Gallery of VictoriaSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtStedelijk Museum AmsterdamStädel MuseumThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Also known as W. Kentridge, William Joseph Kentridge
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