The conceptual ideas and beliefs of artists such as William kentridge and Pablo Picasso are vividly expressed through materials like charcoal, pastel and oil paint and further enhanced with techniques such as palimpsest, allegory, motifs, symbolism and a particular palette of colours. Their idiosyncratic styles enable the audience to connect and relate to their personal experiences, events within history and their existence today in a modern society. Kentridge and Picasso have emotionally charged artworks, Felix in exile and Guernica, effectively communicating the artist’s ideas or concerns and reflect their state of mind that differentiate them from other artists.
William kentridge portrays his distinctive vision of the complex history of South Africa, the legacy…show more content… As a witness to the upheaval, violence and racial and social prejudice of black people, William kentridge became politically active against apartheid as he belonged to the privileged white minorities in South Africa. In 1996 the truth and reconciliation commission was set up to investigate the crimes committed under apartheid. It allowed the perspectives of both black and white people to be recorded without persecution. Creating a threshold for the country to forgive, it had two major roles being to ensure the past injustices are not forgotten and to enable South African people to move on. Kentridge’s film ‘Felix in Exile’ created in 1994 just before the first general election in South Africa questioned the manner that victims of the horrific journey of South Africa becoming a democratic state where remembered. The two main characters, Felix – a man living in exile inspecting the survey charts of Nandi, a black woman working as a land surveyor mapping out the history of the land become symbolic representations of the memories of the journey. The pain and struggle of his country is intricately implied through his particular
