Word: charcoaling
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Kentridge’s animation style is unique. Rather than drawing individual cells, he makes a charcoal sketch on one large sheet of paper and photographs it. He then modifies the sketch slightly, rubbing out old images and drawing in new ones, again photographing the result. Movement is produced by stringing together a line of these pictures. The result is animation in which the old images are never fully erased; a piece of paper flying across the sky retains a faint shadow of itself dangling in its wake...
...thesis, Claire W. Lehmann ’03 raises questions about what sort of ideals are represented by mass-produced miniatures like parts of model train sets and cake-decorating figures. In the show, Claire’s charcoal and pastel compositions—one a barnyard scene replete with barn, silo, tractor, cow, pig and rabbits and the other a forest scene with model trees, deer, squirrels and a Boy Scout—are ominously dark and shadowy. The mix of static and lively toy-like figures creates a kind of grotesque fairy-tale scene that is oddly delightful...
...incredibly vivid passages: “Halfway to the polynia we came to some remarkably old ice. All about us was a chaos of piled up blocks, a great deal of it a dirty yellow which I fancied might easily be matched by mixing burnt sienna with charcoal gray.” These works show how the origins...
...officer was sent to Straus Hall to investigate a fire alarm. The fire allegedly started when two male intruders burned a charcoal...
...then proceeded to the basement of the entryway, where they set fire to some charcoal being stored there...