Kataang(Israel Aaron): Oral Presentation Bibliography And Outline

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. I would like to start my presentation with the clip automatic writing by Kentridge. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–1976), Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–1978), and studied mime and theater at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris (1981–1982). Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects that are most often framed in narrowly defined terms.

Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. In a now-signature technique, Kentridge photographs his charcoal drawings and paper collages over time, recording scenes as they evolve. Working without a script or storyboard, he plots out each animated film, preserving every addition and erasure. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge uses stereoscopic viewers and creates optical illusions with anamorphic projection, to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.

His work was further influenced by artistic satirists, including Honoré Daumier(French, 1808–1879), Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828), and William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). By the 1990s, Kentridge had established an international audience and reputation. His works have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since the 1980s, Kentridge has been awarded various prizes, such as the Kaiserring Prize, the Carnegie Prize, the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, and the Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction.

He currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.The style of his work is multi disciplinary however mainly a mix of conceptual and modernist. A progessive strategy of his particular materials charcoal pastel animation that are kind of shadowy like Kara Walker. In terms of his process as previously mentioned there is no script or storyboard.

The common theme Kentridge works with is apartheidism. My three sources were pbs.org/art21 scholar.google.com and artnet.com/artists//william-kentridge/biography. For the video I used YouTube of course. I had other choices like Felix Listens To The World but inevitably had to cut out a few.