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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

There's workthat needs to be done using the Black figurein painting as a meaningful part...

There's work
that needs to be done using the Black figure
in painting as a meaningful part of the historical narrative

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There's work that needs to be done
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using the Black figure in painting as a meaningful part
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of the historical narrative.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:02
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.
One of the exercises she had us do in that class - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
One of the exercises she had us do in that class
You had to make a collage and then bring that collage back - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
You had to make a collage and then bring that collage back
So that you never really became too attached - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
So that you never really became too attached
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before.
When I looked back at that work, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:12
When I looked back at that work,
And I made a painting called - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
And I made a painting called
Which is a Black figure against a black ground. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
Which is a Black figure against a black ground.
And it was the first time I had used this simplified, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
And it was the first time I had used this simplified,
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,