01/20/10 William Kentridge, Nan Goldin

William Kentridge

1. What is the driver thinking about? Kentridge is inspired by emotional distress.
   
2. Is the driver looking ahead or behind? Perhaps he is scared or jumpy looking ahead and behind. A victim. This reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock drawing. The texture makes the driver look jittery.
   
3. Why is the right side of the drawing unfinished looking? pg.156 para 4 "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of amibiguity, contradition uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings.
   

• I think the driver appears nervous, manic
• Kentridge is alienated from Europe, divided loyalties and duel identities
• He is inspired by the apartheid movement
  
• The patient/doctor also uses nervous texture and portrays distress.
  

Nan Goldin

1. How did she decide on these sets/stories? Goldin uses her real life of drugs, sickness and relationships for her art. Goldin's sister committed suicide when Goldin was young. This impacted her negatively causing her to leave home, move from foster home to foster home, use drugs and have unhealthy relation ships.
   
2. Is abuse art? I don't think so, even after reading this.
   
3. How did she look a month earlier, directly after the beating? I looked on line and didn't find any pics from when she was first beaten.