About William Kentridge
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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Awards & Honors
honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Praemium Imperiale
Dan David Prize
Goslarer Kaiserring
Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
