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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

When I looked back at that work, it certainly has a relationshipto a painting I did in...

When I looked back at that work, it certainly has a relationship
to a painting I did in 1980 that was really transformative
for me and it really sort of set me on the path to doing the work
that I'm doing now

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When I looked back at that work,
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it certainly has a relationship to a painting I did in 1980
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that was really transformative for me
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and it really sort of set me
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on the path to doing the work that I'm doing now.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
56
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:59
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 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,
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
♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
But there's a lingering controversy around - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
But there's a lingering controversy around