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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

And it was the first timeI had used this simplified, kind of reductive representationof a...

And it was the first time
I had used this simplified, kind of reductive representation
of a Black figure

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And it was the first time I had used this simplified,
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kind of reductive representation of a Black figure.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
43
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:18
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Two Dollars and a Dream

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An in-depth look at the works of up-and-coming Black visual artists.
And so that painting was the-- the one that established - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
And so that painting was the-- the one that established
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a picture - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a pict...
He describes the condition of invisibility - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
He describes the condition of invisibility
This condition of being seen and not seen simultaneously. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
This condition of being seen and not seen simultaneously.
And that's what I think a Black figure - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:15
And that's what I think a Black figure
I started creating the sense of volume in those figures - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
I started creating the sense of volume in those figures
So, uh-- You take black, you add white to it, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
So, uh-- You take black, you add white to it,
Black is not the absence of color, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
Black is not the absence of color,
And so if I went to the paint store, as I did, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
And so if I went to the paint store, as I did,
So I could buy an ivory black, I could buy a carbon black, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
So I could buy an ivory black, I could buy a carbon black,
And if you look at each one of those colors, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
And if you look at each one of those colors,
Every one of these tones is on those-- the later figures. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
Every one of these tones is on those-- the later figures.
But, I mean, they all look the same, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
But, I mean, they all look the same,
So I can end up with six, seven, eight or nine - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
So I can end up with six, seven, eight or nine
So that means I have a palette - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
So that means I have a palette
♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
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But there's a lingering controversy around - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
But there's a lingering controversy around
But I tend to think having that extreme, uh, color, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
But I tend to think having that extreme, uh, color,
There's a lot of overlap in terms of structure - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
There's a lot of overlap in terms of structure
It's tone, it's texture, it's color. It's intensity. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
It's tone, it's texture, it's color. It'...