William Kentridge

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Kentridge
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1955(1955-04-28)
Age	69
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Aries

William Kentridge Biography

William Kentridge is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on April 28, 1955 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his drawings, prints as well as animated movies. They are created by filming drawings then making changes and erasures then filming it again. The process is repeated with care, giving each modification to the drawing an interval of one half-second or two seconds of screen time. One drawing is modified and then filmed in this manner until the end of the scene. The drawings that look like palimpsests are later presented alongside the films as finished works of art.

In 1988, Kentridge co-founded Free Film-makers Co-Operative in Johannesburg. In 1999 Kentridge was made filmmaker by Stereoscope. “Purely in the context of my own work,” he wrote in the playscript published of his famed Ubu as well as his involvement with the Truth Commission, “I would be adamant about my belief in the contingent, the unauthentic and the unintentional and the practical ways to find significance. I’d like to reiterate my doubt in the value of good Ideas. and assert that somewhere between pure luck on the other hand and the implementation of a program on the other hand, is the most uncertain , but most productive ground for our work. […]. I think I’ve shown that it’s not the simple direction of logic or aesthetic sensibility that decides the way we work and how one performs their work, but rather a plethora of variables, but only a small portion of which we are able to alter at any time.” The year 2001 was the first time Creative Time aired his film Shadow Procession on the NBC Astrovision Panasonic screen in Times Square.

In 1996-1997, he produced a portfolio of eight prints titled Ubu Tells the Truth, based on Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play Ubu Roi. These prints also relate to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Kentridge’s South Africa after the end of apartheid One of the stark and somber prints from this portfolio, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is illustrated.

Kentridge’s protean artistic investigation continues in his series of tapestries begun in 2001. The tapestries stem from a series of drawings in which he conjured shadowy figures from ripped construction paper and collaged them onto the web-like background of nineteenth-century atlas maps. To reincarnate these figures into tapestry, Kentridge worked in close collaboration with the Johannesburg-based Stephens Tapestry Studio, mapping out cartoons from enlarged photographs of the drawings and hand-picking dyes to colour the locally spun mohair (goat hair).

He began his work in 1987. launched an assortment of drawings in pastel and charcoal which were, at best, based on the Embarkation of Watteau for Cythera. These important drawings that, in the top of them, depict a dystopic, blasted urban landscape, illustrate the artist’s growing awareness of the elasticity of the space and of the movement.

William Kentridge Net Worth

William Kentridge is one of the richest Film Director from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Kentridge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the late 1970s, Kentridge was making prints and drawings. He began to make drawings in 1979. made 20-30 monotypes that soon came to be called the “Pit” series. In the year 1980, he created approximately 50 small-format etchings, which was dubbed”Domestic Scenes” “Domestic Scenes”. These two amazing collections of prints helped establish Kentridge’s unique artistic style which he has developed over the years in a variety of media. While he continues to explore non-traditional media, the core of his work is always printing and drawing.

The nine film that depict Soho Eckstein’s story, an growing emphasis is given to the wellbeing of the individual and the contemporary South African society. The conflict between anarchic and individualistic bourgeois beliefs, also in reference to the duality of man, illustrate the concept of social revolution in a poetic way deforming the surroundings of buildings and landscapes. Kentridge says that even though his work doesn’t focus on apartheid in an explicit and explicit way instead, it is focused on the current situation of Johannesburg His drawings and films are definitely inspired by and feed off the brutal society left behind. In terms of more concrete political concerns, Kentridge says his art is ambiguous, contradictory in his work, as well as unfinished movements and unclear conclusion, all of which appear as minor nuances, yet are the root of most of the disasters that are featured in his art. In a mixed-media triptych entitled “The Boating Party” (1985), based on Renoir’s painting of a similar name, the havoc caused by a seemingly- uninterested aristocracy is perhaps his most severe comment on the state of South Africa during apartheid. The diners are comfortably as the surroundings are damaged, smashed and burned and mangled, a contrast apparent through his aesthetic and use of colors.

Between 1989 and 2003 Kentridge made a series of nine short films that he eventually gathered under the title 9 Drawings for Projection. In 1989, he began the first of those animated movies, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris. The series runs through Monument (1990), Mine (1991), Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old (1991), Felix in Exile (1994), History of the Main Complaint (1996), Weighing and Wanting (1997), and Stereoscope (1999), up to Tide Table (2003) and Other Faces, 2011.

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In 2012, Kentridge was in residence at Harvard University invited to deliver the distinguished Charles Eliot Norton lectures in early 2012.

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. William Kentridge celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

The Six Drawing Lessons, delivered as part of The Norton Lectures series at Harvard University in 2012, consider the work in the studio and the studio as a place of making meaning developed. A series of large drawings of trees in Indian ink on found encyclopedia pages, torn up and reassembled, analyzes the form of different trees indigenous to southern Africa. Drawn across multiple pages from books, each drawing is put together as a puzzle – the single pages first painted, then the whole pieced together.

What artwork made William Kentridge famous?

Best known for his animated drawings , the central focus of Kentridge’s oeuvre has been to examine the years before and after apartheid. The artist conflates his autobiography with that of fictionalized characters to relate his narratives, rendering his signature expressive, gestural drawings in black charcoal and ink.

Why is William Kentridge important?

William Kentridge, (born April 28, 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa), South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s.

What is unique about William Kentridge?

Work. Kentridge believed that being ethnically Jewish gave him a unique position as a third-party observer in South Africa. His parents were lawyers, well-known for their defence of victims of apartheid. Kentridge developed an ability to remove himself somewhat from the atrocities committed under the later regimes.

What does William Kentridge artwork mean?

William Kentridge uses drawings to create films. In his works, unlike in traditional animation that employs multiple drawings to denote change and movement, Kentridge erases and alters a single, stable drawing while recording the changes with stop-motion camera work.

How did William Kentridge create his History of the Main Complaint?

Kentridge created the sixth film History of the Main Complaint in 1996 during the initial hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , at which apartheid’s crimes were first publicly admitted while the perpetrators were granted indemnity in the hope of healing profound social and historical wounds in this post- …