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William Kentridge

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William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Kentridge is the 1,832nd most popular painter (up from 1,909th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 149th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, William Kentridge ranks 1,832 out of 2,023. Before her are Arthur Dove, Oldřich Lajsek, Jaroslav Čermák, Ásgrímur Jónsson, William Merritt Chase, and Samuel Palmer. After her are Kenyon Cox, David Wilkie, Józef Pankiewicz, Elena Guro, Helena Kottler Vurnik, and Pedro Figari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, William Kentridge ranks 353. Before her are Mary Beard, Bill Condon, Kevin Conroy, Linda Watson, Serge Telle, and Dawood Ibrahim. After her are Sandra Bernhard, Indra Nooyi, Susan Dougan, Rolf Løvland, Gabriele Zimmer, and James Eckhouse.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, William Kentridge ranks 139 out of 454. Before her are Ted Grant (1913), Marjorie Clark (1909), Trevor Rabin (1954), John McDowell (1942), Christian Gitsham (1888), and Steve Nash (1974). After her are Harold Kitson (1874), Elsa Joubert (1922), Daphne Hasenjäger (1929), Andrew Murray (1828), Phil Ramone (1934), and George Hunter (1927).

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Among PAINTERS In South Africa

Among painters born in South Africa, William Kentridge ranks 2. Before her are Marlene Dumas (1953). After her are Florence Fuller (1867), Maggie Laubser (1886), and Emily Ford (1851).

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