Watch the video of the "serious play" of William Kentridge at this link http://video.pbs.org/video/1619754531 He animates charcoal drawings (film stills are shown above), creates performance art, designs for the theatre, and plays and plays and plays...
This mural is by Damon Ginandes. Now you can see even more remarkable work from the Underbelly Project in this new video http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/arts/design/01underbelly.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Underbelly%20Project&st=cse.
From the New York Times: Line by Line is about rediscovering the lost skill and singular pleasure of drawing. The subject of this column (by James McMullan) is caricature. Three artists were asked to create a caricature of Pablo Picasso and share their process. Check out the Series at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/drawing-funny/?hp (or see the Inspiration link)
Works by 103 street artists from around the world, were mounted illegally in a long-abandoned New York City subway station this summer. Jasper Rees writes: "Known to its creators and participating artists as the Underbelly Project, the space, where all the show’s artworks remain, defies every norm of the gallery scene." http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/29/arts/design/20101101-underbelly-ss.html
Sue Coe is considered one of the foremost political artists working today. Born in England in 1951, she moved to New York in the early 1970’s. Her most recent series examines the atrocities that humans commit against one another, specifically revealed by the horrors of war.
While Sue Coe's work covers a variety of subjects, she has spent years documenting the atrocities committed by people against animals.
Sue Coe's work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other periodicals. Coe's own publications include How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X), Police State, Dead Meat, and the recently published Pit's Letter.
M. C. Escher 1898 –1972) was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and impossible realities.
Casey Porn Artist Statement:
I have an intense attraction to animal imagery. I'm pretty sure that animals are people too, and paint them accordingly. I use these animal characters as a vehicle to express my own thoughts and feelings about our society, specifically referencing pop culture and current events. These works are about science, technology, industry, and identity.
Jason Whitman Artist Statement:
I've always had a difficult time interacting with others, but that's never kept me from trying to understand how they feel or why they do the things they do. I embrace our faults, and take too much pleasure in uncomfortable social situations. I feel like maybe it softens the blow when we can see our short- comings in someone or something else. I give my characters a variety of natural disguises, but below all of that, beyond the deer head, or lion face, we're no different.
Al Hirschfeld's caricatures are almost always drawings of pure line with simple black ink on white paper with little to no shading or crosshatching. His drawings always manage to capture a likeness using the minimum number of lines.
Though his caricatures often exaggerate and distort the faces of his subjects, he is often described as being a fundamentally "nicer" caricaturist than many of his contemporaries
David Levine also described his purpose as follows: "Caricature is a form of hopeful statement: I'm drawing this critical look at what you're doing, and I hope that you will learn something from what I'm doing."
David Levine said that "by making the powerful funny-looking ...he might encourage some humility or self-awareness".
